Reflections On How We Live

✍ Scribed by Annette Baier

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The pioneering moral philosopher Annette Baier presents a series of new and recent essays in ethics, broadly conceived to include both engagements with other philosophers and personal meditations on life. Baier's unique voice and insight illuminate a wide range of topics. In the public sphere, she enquires into patriotism, what we owe future people, and what toleration we should have for killing. In the private sphere, she discusses honesty, self-knowledge, hope, sympathy, and self-trust, and offers personal reflections on faces, friendship, and alienating affection.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
1. The Rights of Past and Future Persons......Page 14
2. For the Sake of Future Generations......Page 29
3. Discriminate Death-Dealing: Who May Kill Whom, and How?......Page 67
4. Can Philosophers Be Patriots?......Page 80
5. Why Honesty Is a Hard Virtue Postscript......Page 98
Postscript......Page 122
6. Getting in Touch With Our Own Feelings......Page 124
7. How to Get to Know One’s Own Mind: Some Simple Ways......Page 141
8. The Moral Perils of Intimacy......Page 161
9. Feelings That Matter......Page 170
10. Demoralization, Trust, and the Virtues......Page 186
11. Sympathy and Self-Trust......Page 202
12. Putting Hope in its Place......Page 229
13. How to Lose Friends: Some Simple Ways......Page 243
14. Alienating Affection......Page 254
15. Faces, and Other Body Parts......Page 257
16. Other Minds: Jottings Towards an Intellectual Self-Image......Page 265
Acknowledgments......Page 282
I......Page 284
W......Page 285
P......Page 287
W......Page 288