Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Flanagan, Owen
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Date:	01/01/1993
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.