The Examined Life An Adventure in Moral Philosophy

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fite, Warner, 1867-1955.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 276 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1957]

Contents:

I. Morality: what is it? : The meaning of "morality" ; Obligation vs. choice.

II. The moral philosopher : The orthodox moralist ; The moralist as a naturalist ; Moral insight.

III. The many moral worlds : Orthodox morality and the moral standard ; The moralities of race, class, and occupation ; Differing moral tastes ; The good men of the moral philosophies.

IV. The logic of the standard : The odiousness of comparisons ; The moral standard and the business point of view ; Social utility in law and orthodox morality ; "Positive" morality.

V. The motive of authority : The categorical imperative ; The basis of authority ; The authoritarian tradition ; Austere morality ; Authority v. morality ; The sentiment of reverence.

VI. The ordered society : The order of reverence ; The utility of the reverential order ; The ordered society and the biological species ; Ordered relations vs. social relations ; The decay of reverence and the dawn of morality.

VII. The unity of the spirit : Morality among the values ; Utility and the system of means and ends ; VIII. The pragmatic attitude : The forward-looking attitude ; Anticipation vs. retrospection ; Imagination and the specious present ; Reflective intelligence and the flux of life.

IX. The wisdom of the serpent : Intelligence and the serpent ; The moral fault and the intellectual ; The clever rogue and the simple honest man ; The critical life and the question of intelligence ; Intelligence vs. intellect, mathematical and logical ; Intelligence personal and critical. X. The beauty of virtue : Aesthetic taste and moral law ; The experience of beauty and virtue ; The beauty of utility ; The moral ground of aesthetic criticism.

XI. The beauty of knowledge : Aesthetic impressions and scientific facts ; History as a branch of art.

XII. Justification by knowledge : Judgment vs. criticism ; Objectivity and rationality ; The illusion of deliberate wickedness ; "Tout comprendre" and "tout pardoner" ; The moral question and the practical.

XIII. The enjoyment of life : The Epicurean attitude ; An Epicurean confession ; Epicurus and Pater ; Enjoyment and imagination ; The enjoyment of friendship and the enjoyment of religion ; Serious enjoyment.

XIV. The substance of life : The particular nature of man ; Biological evolution and the experience of thinking ; Thinking and imagination ; Imagination and human life ; Imagination, morality, religion ; Imagination and the metaphysical problem.

XV. The experience of truth : The man of science and the man of culture ; "Mere ideas" and the picture-psychology ; "Mere feelings" ; Science and anthropomorphic prejudice ; Truth and satisfied imagination ; Error and lack of imagination ; Experience of reality vs. coherence and correspondence.

XVI. The presence of the divine : Knowledge and "communion with the divine" ;The motive of knowledge and the motive of love ; The idea of God and the presence of God.

XVII. Poetic illusion and poetic truth : Poetry and religious experience ; Experience as experience of the real ; Man as animal and man as human being.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-04853-2

OCLC:

1259584850

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access