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

Presents What Philosophical Ethics Can Be Like If Freed From The Idealizing And Reductive Pressures Of Conventional Moral Theory, Making The Case That Moral Imagination Is A Key Part Of Human Virtue By Showing The Variety Of Roles It Plays In Our Practical And Evaluative Lives. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. What Makes A Good Decision? -- 2. Three Kinds Of Moral Imagination -- 3. Intuition, System, And The 'paradox' Of Deontology -- 4. Impartial Benevolence And Partial Love -- 5. Internal Reasons And The Heart's Desire -- 6. On The Very Idea Of Criteria For Personhood -- 7. Glory As An Ethical Idea -- 8. Beauty And Nobility In Ethics -- 9. Moral Certainties -- 10. Why Ethics Is Hard -- 11. The Varieties Of Knowledge In Plato And Aristotle -- 12. Platonistic Virtue Ethics. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 323-333) And Index.