On loving our enemies : essays in moral psychology /

This text explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action. Can there be an ethics of emotion or an ethics of fantasy? What are the limits of our freedom? And what are the sources of our standards? This title explores these questions and much more.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neu, Jerome
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • On loving our enemies: the ethics of emotion
  • The ethics of fantasy
  • Authenticity and the examined life
  • Divided minds: Sartre's "bad faith" critique of Freud
  • Encyclopedia entries on Freud
  • Genetic explanation in totem and taboo
  • Descartes' dreams
  • Minds on trial
  • More speech, better speech as the best defense
  • Euthyphro, the legal realists, and the dilemma of authority
  • Plato's analogy of state and individual:
  • The Republic and the organic theory of the state
  • Short reviews.