How should we live? : a practical approach to everyday morality /
Kekes, John,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
Introduction -- The problem and the project -- Conflicts -- Real lives -- Ideal theories -- The argument -- Absolutist morality -- The school teacher -- Absolutist morality -- Commitments -- Overriding commitments? -- A dilemma -- Individual autonomy -- The lawyer -- Autonomy -- Misguided theorizing -- The divided self -- Ambivalence and understanding -- Reflective self-evaluation -- The dutiful man -- Self-evaluation -- Real lives and ideal theory -- Contingency -- Justification -- Unconditional love -- The father -- Love -- Problems -- Sentimentalism -- Love within reason -- Strong evaluation -- The nurse -- Strong evaluation -- Doubts -- Capacity or activity? -- Fact or ideal? -- Loss -- Narrative unity -- The civil servant -- The narrative ideal -- Criticism -- Are narratives reliable? -- The ideal and the real -- Practical reason -- The divided woman -- Practical reason -- Complexities -- All things considered -- What reason requires and allows -- Inescapable reflection -- The dean -- Reflection -- Knowledge -- Confidence -- The route back -- Necessary truthfulness -- The betrayed woman -- Genealogy -- Criticisms -- Vindicatory genealogies -- Subversive genealogies -- The very idea of genealogies -- Truthfulness and the practical approach.
Ethics.
Conduct of life.