Thinking of Others : : On the Talent for Metaphor / / Ted Cohen.
In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see onese...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Monographs in Philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE. The Talent for Metaphor
- CHAPTER TWO. Being a Good Sport
- CHAPTER THREE. From the Bible: Nathan and David
- CHAPTER FOUR. Real Feelings, Unreal People
- CHAPTER FIVE. More from the Bible: Abraham and God
- CHAPTER SIX. More Lessons from Sports
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Oneself Seen by Others
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Oneself as Oneself
- CHAPTER NINE. Lessons from Art
- CHAPTER TEN. The Possibility of Conversation, Moral and Otherwise
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conclusion: In Praise of Metaphor
- Index