The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy
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[1957]
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| 505 | 0 | |a I. Morality: what is it? : The meaning of "morality" ; Obligation vs. choice. -- II. The moral philosopher : The orthodox moralist ; The moralist as a naturalist ; Moral insight. -- III. The many moral worlds : Orthodox morality and the moral standard ; The moralities of race, class, and occupation ; Differing moral tastes ; The good men of the moral philosophies. -- IV. The logic of the standard : The odiousness of comparisons ; The moral standard and the business point of view ; Social utility in law and orthodox morality ; "Positive" morality. -- V. The motive of authority : The categorical imperative ; The basis of authority ; The authoritarian tradition ; Austere morality ; Authority v. morality ; The sentiment of reverence. -- VI. The ordered society : The order of reverence ; The utility of the reverential order ; The ordered society and the biological species ; Ordered relations vs. social relations ; The decay of reverence and the dawn of morality. -- VII. The unity of the spirit : Morality among the values ; Utility and the system of means and ends ; VIII. The pragmatic attitude : The forward-looking attitude ; Anticipation vs. retrospection ; Imagination and the specious present ; Reflective intelligence and the flux of life. -- IX. The wisdom of the serpent : Intelligence and the serpent ; The moral fault and the intellectual ; The clever rogue and the simple honest man ; The critical life and the question of intelligence ; Intelligence vs. intellect, mathematical and logical ; Intelligence personal and critical. X. The beauty of virtue : Aesthetic taste and moral law ; The experience of beauty and virtue ; The beauty of utility ; The moral ground of aesthetic criticism. -- XI. The beauty of knowledge : Aesthetic impressions and scientific facts ; History as a branch of art. -- XII. Justification by knowledge : Judgment vs. criticism ; Objectivity and rationality ; The illusion of deliberate wickedness ; "Tout comprendre" and "tout pardoner" ; The moral question and the practical. -- XIII. The enjoyment of life : The Epicurean attitude ; An Epicurean confession ; Epicurus and Pater ; Enjoyment and imagination ; The enjoyment of friendship and the enjoyment of religion ; Serious enjoyment. -- XIV. The substance of life : The particular nature of man ; Biological evolution and the experience of thinking ; Thinking and imagination ; Imagination and human life ; Imagination, morality, religion ; Imagination and the metaphysical problem. -- XV. The experience of truth : The man of science and the man of culture ; "Mere ideas" and the picture-psychology ; "Mere feelings" ; Science and anthropomorphic prejudice ; Truth and satisfied imagination ; Error and lack of imagination ; Experience of reality vs. coherence and correspondence. -- XVI. The presence of the divine : Knowledge and "communion with the divine" ;The motive of knowledge and the motive of love ; The idea of God and the presence of God. -- XVII. Poetic illusion and poetic truth : Poetry and religious experience ; Experience as experience of the real ; Man as animal and man as human being. | |
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