Artless Integrity

Artless Integrity
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9780585379425
ISBN-13 : 0585379424
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Book Synopsis Artless Integrity by : Susan E. Babbitt

Download or read book Artless Integrity written by Susan E. Babbitt and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the nature and exercise of moral imagination in situations in which our ability to act and choose meaningfully is limited by unarticulated expectations. Moral imagination is a cognitive attitude, in which we regard propositions as true. But it also involves orientation. In moral imagination, we regard propositions as true in order to make something else true, and we act and interpret as if it were true. The demand for explanatory unity in such situations - what I call 'explanatory burden' - involves self-constitution, with seeing oneself as a certain sort of person and developing relevant expectations. Whereas it is common to define human well-being in terms of choice and capacities, I suggest that meaningful choice and human capacities are sometimes defined in terms of the actual pursuit and achievement of human well-being. I draw upon examples from literature, film, and historical narrative to suggest that while we think autonomy and agency consist, at least in part, in taking control, we must sometimes be controlled by circumstances and relations in order to occupy an appropriate interpretive perspective for real freedom. I consider the implications of this point for such concepts as respect, friendship and democracy.

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