Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism,

by Owen J. Flanagan

Book Overview

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 Shindler, 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674932188
• ISBN13: 9780674932180
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.