{"product_id":"the-enlargement-of-life-moral-imagination-at-work-by-john-kekes","title":"The Enlargement of Life: Moral Imagination at Work by John Kekes","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780801476273\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCornell University Press, 22 April 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 256 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMoral imagination, according to John Kekes, is indispensable to a fulfilling and responsible life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e By correcting a parochial view of the possibilities available to us and overcoming mistaken assumptions about our limitations, moral imagination liberates us from self-imposed narrowness. It enlarges life by enabling us to reflect more deeply and widely about how we should live. The material for this reflection, Kekes believes, is supplied by literature. Each of the eleven chapters of the book focuses on a novel, play, or autobiography that exemplifies the protagonist's reflective self-evaluation. Kekes shows the enduring significance of these protagonists' successes or failures and how we might apply what they teach to our very different characters and circumstances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKekes discusses John Stuart Mill's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOedipus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tragedies by Sophocles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAge of Innocence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Edith Wharton, Henry James's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmbassadors and The Golden Bowl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Montaigne's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a story by Herodotus, and Arthur Koestler's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArrival and Departure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Throughout, Kekes shows that moral thought must be concrete, not abstract; that good reasons for or against how we live and what choices we make are available but must be particular, not universal; and that the rigid separation of literature, psychology, and moral thought is detrimental to all three.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"IH PENTZ BOOKSELLERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46680231182498,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/51naB2knPFL._SY522.jpg?v=1773750922","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/the-enlargement-of-life-moral-imagination-at-work-by-john-kekes","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}