Varieties of moral personality
Subtitle: ethics and psychological realism
By: Owen Flanagan.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Ethics; Psychology and philosophy
Description: Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of such "moral saints" as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Oskar Shindler, Flanagan charts a middle course between an ethics that is too realistic and socially parochial and one that is too idealistic, giving no weight to our natures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-373) and index.