Moral Wisdom and Good Lives / / John Kekes.
In this profound and yet accessible book, John Kekes discusses moral wisdom: a virtue essential to living a morally good and personally satisfying life. He advances a broad, nontechnical argument that considers the adversities inherent in the human condition and assists in the achievement of good li...
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Kekes, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Moral Wisdom and Good Lives / John Kekes. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1997 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A First Approximation -- CHAPTER ONE. A Eudaimonistic Conception of Good Lives -- CHAPTER TWO. The Socratic Ideal and Its Problems -- CHAPTER THREE. Permanent Adversities -- CHAPTER FOUR. judgment and Control -- CHAPTER FIVE. Moral Imagination: The First Mode of Reflection -- CHAPTER SIX. Self-Knowledge: The Second Mode of Reflection -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Self-Knowledge: The Second Mode of Reflection (continued) -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Moral Depth: The Third Mode of Reflection -- CHAPTER NINE. The Ideal of justice -- CHAPTER TEN. Growing in Moral Wisdom -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this profound and yet accessible book, John Kekes discusses moral wisdom: a virtue essential to living a morally good and personally satisfying life. He advances a broad, nontechnical argument that considers the adversities inherent in the human condition and assists in the achievement of good lives.The possession of moral wisdom, Kekes asserts, is a matter of degree: more of it makes lives better, less makes them worse. Exactly what is moral wisdom, however, and how should it be sought? Ancient Greek and medieval Christian philosophers were centrally concerned with it. By contrast, modern Western sensibility doubts the existence of a moral order in reality; and because we doubt it, and have developed no alternatives, we have grown dubious about the traditional idea of wisdom.Kekes returns to the classical Greek sources of Western philosophy to argue for the contemporary significance of moral wisdom. He develops a proposal that is eudaimonistic—secular, anthropocentric, pluralistic, individualistic, and agonistic. He understands moral wisdom as focusing on the human effort to create many different forms of good lives. Although the approach is Aristotelian, the author concentrates on formulating and defending a contemporary moral ideal. The importance of this ideal, he shows, lies in increasing our ability to cope with life's adversities by improving our judgment.In chapters on moral imagination, self-knowledge, and moral depth, Kekes calls attention to aspects of our inner life that have been neglected because of our cultural inattention to moral wisdom. He discusses these inner processes through the tragedies of Sophocles, which can inspire us with their enduring moral significance and help us to understand the importance of moral wisdom to living a good life. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Happiness. Prudence. Virtues. Wisdom Moral and ethical aspects. Philosophy & Religion. Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721861 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721861 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721861/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A First Approximation -- CHAPTER ONE. A Eudaimonistic Conception of Good Lives -- CHAPTER TWO. The Socratic Ideal and Its Problems -- CHAPTER THREE. Permanent Adversities -- CHAPTER FOUR. judgment and Control -- CHAPTER FIVE. Moral Imagination: The First Mode of Reflection -- CHAPTER SIX. Self-Knowledge: The Second Mode of Reflection -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Self-Knowledge: The Second Mode of Reflection (continued) -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Moral Depth: The Third Mode of Reflection -- CHAPTER NINE. The Ideal of justice -- CHAPTER TEN. Growing in Moral Wisdom -- Works Cited -- Index |
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