Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity and Moral Imagination

by Susan E. Babbitt

Conventional wisdom and commonsense morality tend to take the integrity of persons for granted. But for people in systematically unjust societies, self-respect and human dignity may prove to be impossible dreams.Susan Babbitt explores the implications of this insight, arguing that in the face of systemic injustice, individual and social rationality may require the transformation rather than the realization of deep-seated aims, interests, and values...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813326397
• ISBN13: 9780813326399
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages