On loving our enemies
Subtitle: essays in moral psychology
By: Jerome Neu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780199862986
Subjects: Moral development; Conduct of life; Psychological aspects; Psychology and philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy
Description: This text explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action. Can there be an ethics of emotion or an ethics of fantasy? What are the limits of our freedom? And what are the sources of our standards? This title explores these questions and much more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On loving our enemies: the ethics of emotion; title: The ethics of fantasy; title: Authenticity and the examined life; title: Divided minds: Sartre's "bad faith" critique of Freud; title: Encyclopedia entries on Freud; title: Genetic explanation in totem and taboo; title: Descartes' dreams; title: Minds on trial; title: More speech, better speech as the best defense; title: Euthyphro, the legal realists, and the dilemma of authority; title: Plato's analogy of state and individual:; title: The Republic and the organic theory of the state; title: Short reviews.