This volume considers the nature and exercise of moral imagination in situations in which our ability to act and choose meaningfully is limited by unarticulated expectations.
Über den Autor
Susan Babbitt teaches at Queens University, Canada and works with an interdisciplinary group at the University of Havana, on women and human development.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Moral Risk and Dark Waters Chapter 2 Self-Respect: What Institutions Have to do with Expectations Chapter 3 Integrity, Stability, and the Self Chapter 4 Friendship and Solidarity Chapter 5 Artless Integrity and the Power of the Story Chapter 6 "We must continue dreaming": Cuba, Democracy and the Armed Owl
Klappentext
Susan Babbitt dissects a common moral perspective for judging importance which she calls 'moral imagination.' In order to explain ourselves, and to recognize in others, what we often already perceive intuitively to be right or good, we instinctively create a story as a framework. She argues that we intentionally create stories which appear artless or chaotic, something capable of imperfection. This allows the story-maker to eventually deviate if he or she chooses, without a loss of hope, even if that direction and goal may not yet be able to be fully articulated or defended.
