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Artless Integrity

Moral Imagination, Agency, and Stories

By: Susan E. Babbitt

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Artless Integrity

Moral Imagination, Agency, and Stories

By: Susan E. Babbitt

This book considers the nature and exercise of moral imagination in situations in which our ability to act and choose meaningfully is limited by unarticulated expectations. Moral imagination is a cognitive attitude, in which we regard propositions as true. But it also involves orientation. In moral imagination, we regard propositions as true in order to make something else true, and we act and interpret as if it were true. The demand for explanatory unity in such situations - what I call 'explanatory burden' - involves self-constitution, with seeing oneself as a certain sort of person and developing relevant expectations. Whereas it is common to define human well-being in terms of choice and capacities, I suggest that meaningful choice and human capacities are sometimes defined in terms of the actual pursuit and achievement of human well-being. I draw upon examples from literature, film, and historical narrative to suggest that while we think autonomy and agency consist, at least in part, in taking control, we must sometimes be controlled by circumstances and relations in order to occupy an appropriate interpretive perspective for real freedom. I consider the implications of this point for such concepts as respect, friendship and democracy.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0585379424

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9780585379425

Racism and Philosophy

By: Susan E. Babbitt,Sue Campbell

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Racism and Philosophy

By: Susan E. Babbitt,Sue Campbell

By definitively establishing that racism has broad implications for how the entire field of philosophy is practiced—and by whom—this powerful and convincing book puts all members of the discipline on notice that racism concerns them. It simultaneously demonstrates to race theorists the significance of philosophy for their work.A distinguished cast of authors takes a stand on the importance of race, focusing on the insights that analyses of race and racism can make to philosophy—not just to ethics and political philosophy but also to the more abstract debates of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Contemporary philosophy, the authors argue, continues to evade racism and, as a result, often helps to promote it. At the same time, anti-racist theorists in many disciplines regularly draw on crucial notions of objectivity, rationality, agency, individualism, and truth without adequate knowledge of philosophical analyses of these very concepts. Racism and Philosophy demonstrates the impossibility of talking thoughtfully about race without recourse to philosophy. Written to engage readers with a wide variety of interests, this is an essential book for all theorists of race and for all philosophers.

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304

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Cornell University Press

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1501720716

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9781501720710

Humanism and Embodiment

From Cause and Effect to Secularism

By: Susan E. Babbitt

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Humanism and Embodiment

From Cause and Effect to Secularism

By: Susan E. Babbitt

A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and human community. Susan Babbitt's original study presents humanism as a meta-ethical view, paralleling naturalistic realism in recent analytic epistemology and philosophy of science. Considering the nature of knowledge, particularly the radical contingency of knowledge claims upon causal mechanisms, religious thinkers like Thomas Merton and Ivan Illich offer more scientific conceptions of practical deliberation than are offered by some non-religious ethicists. Drawing on philosophical sources such as Marxism, Buddhism and Christianity, this original study considers implications of an embodied conception of reason, revealing philosophical, practical and political implications.

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209

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A&C Black

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1472529146

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9781472529145

Impossible Dreams

Rationality, Integrity And Moral Imagination

By: Susan Babbitt

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Impossible Dreams

Rationality, Integrity And Moral Imagination

By: Susan Babbitt

Both contemporary philosophy and commonsense morality presuppose a personal autonomy and integrity that an unjust social system may make impossible for some people. Babbitt examines the implications of this insight, drawing on feminist and antiracist political theory, contemporary analytic ethics and philosophy of mind, and nonphilosophical literature. She argues for the role of moral imagination in discovering and defending a more humane social vision. }Conventional wisdom and commonsense morality tend to take the integrity of persons for granted. But for people in systematically unjust societies, self-respect and human dignity may prove to be impossible dreams.Susan Babbitt explores the implications of this insight, arguing that in the face of systemic injustice, individual and social rationality may require the transformation rather than the realization of deep-seated aims, interests, and values. In particular, under such conditions, she argues, the cultivation and ongoing exercise of moral imagination is necessary to discover and defend a more humane social vision. Impossible Dreams is one of those rare books that fruitfully combines discourses that were previously largely separate: feminist and antiracist political theory, analytic ethics and philosophy of mind, and a wide range of non-philosophical literature on the lives of oppressed peoples around the world. It is both an object lesson in reaching across academic barriers and a demonstration of how the best of feminist philosophy can be in conversation with the best of mainstream philosophyas well as affect the lives of real people. }

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Routledge

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0429979541

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Impossible Dreams

Rationality, Integrity And Moral Imagination

By: Susan Babbitt

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Early Buddhism As Philosophy of Existence

Freedom and Death

By: Susan E. Babbitt

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Early Buddhism As Philosophy of Existence

Freedom and Death

By: Susan E. Babbitt

This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.

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1839983345

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The Story of Susan B. Anthony

By: Susan Clinton

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The Story of Susan B. Anthony

By: Susan Clinton

Recounts the story of the nineteenth-century activist who spent much of her life fighting for women's rights.

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Children's Press

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0516047051

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Book's by Susan E. Babbitt

Artless Integrity

Artless Integrity

Racism and Philosophy

Racism and Philosophy

Humanism and Embodiment

Humanism and Embodiment

Impossible Dreams

Impossible Dreams

Impossible Dreams

Impossible Dreams

Early Buddhism As Philosophy of Existence

Early Buddhism As Philosophy of Existence

The Story of Susan B. Anthony

The Story of Susan B. Anthony

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