Knowing What to Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics

by Sophie Grace Chappell

Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer she defends is 'By developing our moral imaginations'. The series of studies presented in Knowing What To Do contribute to the case that the moral imagination is a key part of human excellence or virtue by showing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198798857
• ISBN13: 9780198798859
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"