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The reflective life : living wisely with our limits / Valerie Tiberius.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tiberius, Valerie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages)
- Other Title:
- Living wisely with our limits
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How should you live? Should you devote yourself to perfecting a single talent or try to live a balanced life? Should you lighten up and have more fun, or buckle down and try to achieve greatness? Should you try to be a better friend? Should you be self-critical or self-accepting? And how should you decide among the possibilities open to you? Should you consult experts, listen to your parents, do lots of research? Make lists of pros and cons, or go with your gut? These are notquestions that can be answered in general or in the abstract. Rather, these questions are addressed to the first person
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161455-6
- 0-19-957560-6
- 1-281-85242-2
- 9786611852429
- 0-19-152524-3
- OCLC:
- 227011205
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