Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism - Softcover

Flanagan, Owen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674932196 ISBN 13: 9780674932197

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of such “moral saints” as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Oskar Schindler, Flanagan charts a middle course between an ethics that is too realistic and socially parochial and one that is too idealistic, giving no weight to our natures.

About this title

About the Author:

Owen Flanagan is Professor of Philosophy, Duke University.

Review:

“Flanagan’s book prepares a framework for the balanced interchange between empirical studies and their varied interpretations. Rigorous in its search, the value of this book lies in its capacity to ferret out the conditional bonds between human psychology and ethical expectations.”―E. Mark Stern, Contemporary Psychology

“This is a rich and elegantly written book... In Flanagan’s writing, no view is dismissed out of hand, none is taken over uncritically thereby exemplifying the same intellectual responsibility he advocates for moral psychology in general.”―Thomas E. Wren, Journal of Moral Education

“This book is both stimulating and well-written. It covers a great deal of territory, but is always clear and usually fair. It can be read with profit by psychologists, ethicists, and political philosophers.”―Roger Paden, Review of Metaphysics

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0674932196
• ISBN 13: 9780674932197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410