The reflective life : living wisely with our limits /
"What can we do to live life wisely? You might think that the answer would be to think and reflect more. But this is not Valerie Tiberius's answer. On her view, when we really take account of what we are like - when we recognize our psychological limits - we will see that too much thinking...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- The reflective life and reflective values
- Introduction
- Living well and your point of view
- Process and goal : why start with the first-person point of view?
- Aristotle and virtue
- A road map
- Reflective values
- Value commitments and justification
- Reflective values
- The justification of reflective values : some concerns
- Conclusion : values and the challenges of modern life
- Wisdom and perspective
- Wisdom and flexibility
- A reflective conception of a good life
- The limits of reflection and the importance of shifting
- Perspectives
- Attentional flexibility
- Wisdom and rationality
- Perspective
- Having perspective : some examples
- Perspective and reflective values
- Refining the account of perspective
- The value of perspective
- Self-awareness
- The scope and limits of self-knowledge
- Acquiring self-knowledge
- Moderate self-awareness : habits and skills
- The value of self-awareness
- Optimism
- Preliminaries : endorsement and virtue
- The value of being realistic
- Cynicism
- Realistic optimism
- The value of optimism
- Beyond the first-person point of view
- Morality and the reflective life
- Reflective virtues and moral agency
- Wise decisions and value conflicts
- Some problems : discretion, complacency, and intractable
- Conflicts
- Normativity and ethical theory
- Arbitrariness and the desire to live well
- Contingency
- The painter and the anatomist.