Varieties of Moral Personality Paperback by Owen Flanagan

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1993-01-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 410 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674932197
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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 the Author

Owen Flanagan is Professor of Philosophy, Duke University.