Reflections on how we live
By: Annette C. Baier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780199570362
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rights of past and future persons; title: For the sake of future generations; title: Discrimin.ite death-dealing: who may kill whom, and how?; title: Can philosophers be patriots?; title: Why honesty is a hard virtue postscript; title: Getting in touch with our own feelings; title: How to get to know one's own mind: some simple ways; title: The moral perils of intimacy; title: Feelings that matter; title: Demoralization, trust, and the virtues; title: Sympathy and self-trust; title: Putting hope in its place; title: How to lose friends: some simple ways; title: Alienating affection; title: Faces, and other body parts; title: Other minds: jottings towards an intellectual self-image.