TY  - GEN
T1  - The enlargement of life : moral imagination at work
A1  - Kekes, John
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1042220256
AB  - Moral imagination, according to John Kekes, is indispensable to a fulfilling and responsible life. By correcting a parochial view of the possibilities available to us and overcoming mistaken assumptions about our limitations, moral imagination liberates us from self-imposed narrowness. It enlarges life by enabling us to reflect more deeply and widely about how we should live. The material for this reflection, Kekes believes, is supplied by literature. Each of the eleven chapters of the book focuses on a novel, play, or autobiography that exemplifies the protagonist's reflective self-evaluation. Kekes shows the enduring significance of these protagonists' successes or failures and how we might apply what they teach to our very different characters and circumstances. Kekes discusses John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, the Oedipus tragedies by Sophocles, Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Henry James's The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl, Montaigne's Essays, a story by Herodotus, and Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure. Throughout, Kekes shows that moral thought must be concrete, not abstract; that good reasons for or against how we live and what choices we make are available but must be particular, not universal; and that the rigid separation of literature, psychology, and moral thought is detrimental to all three.
OP  - 236
CN  - BH301.I53 K45 2006eb
SN  - 9781501732232
SN  - 1501732234
SN  - 9780801445118
SN  - 0801445116
SN  - 9780801476273
KW  - Imagination (Philosophy)
KW  - Autonomy (Philosophy)
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - Conduct of life.
KW  - Self-realization : Moral and ethical aspects.
KW  - Imagination in literature.
KW  - Self (Philosophy) in literature.
KW  - Conduct of life in literature.
KW  - Self-realization in literature.
KW  - Autonomie (Philosophie)
KW  - Moi (Philosophie)
KW  - Morale pratique.
KW  - Réalisation de soi : Aspect moral.
KW  - Moi (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
KW  - Morale pratique dans la littérature.
KW  - Réalisation de soi dans la littérature.
KW  - ethics (philosophical concept)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Conduct of life in literature
KW  - Imagination in literature
KW  - Self (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Self-realization in literature
KW  - Self-realization : Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Lebensführung
KW  - Selbst
KW  - Selbstverwirklichung
KW  - Verbeelding.
KW  - Autonomie (algemeen)
KW  - Zelfontwikkeling.
KW  - Ethische aspecten.
ER  -