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050 4 $aBJ1012$b.M34 1979
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100 1 $aMaguire, Daniel C.
245 14 $aThe moral choice /$cby Daniel C. Maguire.
260 $a[Minneapolis, Mn.] :$bWinston,$c1979, ℗♭1978.
300 $axvii, 477 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aChapter 1: Muddle in the moralscape -- Sex rampant -- The Lordship of science -- The morality of the dinosaurs -- Politics vs. Morality -- Chapter 2: Ethics in a climate of negation -- Despair and fear in American Dada -- Dada as prophet -- Philosophy in exile -- The cult of the obscure -- The value vacuum -- Ethics and the Skinnerian malady -- Chapter 3: The meaning of morals -- The Ik people vs. Adupa -- The relativists: The reduction of morality to ccustom-- Morality as the condition of survival -- The linguistic bypass -- The presumers -- Ethical realism -- The supreme sacrifice in religion, history, and literature -- Affectivity, faith, process -- The propriety of self-love -- Justice as the minimal shape of other-love -- Chapter 4: Love's tragedy -- From morality to ethics -- A model for ethical method -- The quest for realism -- Human nature and the illusion of self-evidence -- Of modesty and paradox.
505 0 $aChapter 5: The routes to realism -- The reality-revealing questions -- What? and the first cognitive contact -- Why? and How? and ends and means -- What is motive? -- Sincerity in motivation -- Does the end justify the means? -- The moral meaning of syle -- Who? the question of person -- When? and Where? -- The link with the future: the question of foreseeable effects -- The limits of consequentialism -- Consequentialism and the glorification of ends -- Teleology vs. Deontology: another misplaced debate -- The problem of unwanted effects -- Effects and the utilitarian temptation -- What are the viable alternatives? -- The nature of alternatives -- From value vacuum to value source.
505 0 $aChapter 6: Ethics and creativity -- Creative imagination -- What is the creative act? -- Creative ethics -- The conditions for moral creativity -- Imagination astray -- Chapter 7: Consistency and surprise -- On the distinctive nature of moral principles -- The empirical roots of ethics -- The quest for universals -- A practical objection -- The history and sociology of principles -- The rapport between principles and ideals -- The problem of exceptional cases -- The lure of essences -- Chapter 8: On reason and reliance -- Reason and affection -- Reason as the forebear of creativity -- Reasonable or rationalistic -- Reason in recess -- Authority and the art of reliance -- The good side of authority -- Conclusion.
505 0 $aChapter 9: The feel of truth -- A radical plan for good breeding -- Feeling and character as conduits of Truth -- On delight and the sense of profanation -- When affective knowledge is disdained -- How practical affective knowledge? -- Love and our social future -- Affective relief from the experts -- Where principles fade -- Chapter 10: Knowledge: Common and unique -- The fact of group knowing -- Lessons from history -- Class and nation as conditioners of cconsciousness-- Nationalism and social evaluation -- On knowing better socially -- A caution on the demonic comparison -- Anticipatory revisionism and the pendulum effect -- A word on small group witness -- In defense of the living intellect ... Individual experience -- Religious experience.
505 0 $aChapter 11: The comic and the tragic in ethics -- Sense in nonsense -- Humor as the bane of absolutism -- When humor goes amuck -- Where tragedy and comedy meet -- The positive value of tragedy -- How can the tragic be good? -- Tragedy and the activation of the will -- Chapter 12: Conscience and guilt -- Conscience as self -- Conscience in three tenses -- On the nature of realistic guilt -- Three understandings of guilt -- The possibility of collective guilt -- Chapter 13: Discourse -- Myth -- Myth as a bargainer for meaning -- The myth of woman -- Myths and the psychopolitical universe -- Myth and the understanding of history -- Myth and the moral in American political experience -- Myth and ideology -- Cognitive mood -- False analogues -- Abstractions -- The ought-to-is fallacy -- Words, words, words -- and abstractions -- Selective vision -- Role and banalization -- In fine -- Index.
650 0 $aEthics.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aMaguire, Daniel C.$tMoral choice.$d[Minneapolis, Mn.] : Winston, 1979, ℗♭1978$w(OCoLC)987971274
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