Kristen Renwick Monroe

The Unspoken Morality of Childhood (eBook, ePUB)

Family, Friendship, Self-Esteem and the Wisdom of the Everyday

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Unspoken Morality of Childhood: Family, Friendship, Self-Esteem and the Wisdom of the Everyday reflects the thoughts of a senior ethicist and discusses complex ethical concepts such as identity, agency, self-esteem, forgiveness, relations with our parents, dealing with loss, the moral imagination, and a wide range of other issues that people confront every day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839982415
• Artikelnr.: 64031659

Autorenporträt

Kristen Renwick Monroe is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine, where she serves as founding Director of the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics & Morality. She has published over 100 articles and 20 books, including four award-winning works on ethics and political psychology:The Heart of Altruism; The Hand of Compassion, Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide, and A Darkling Plain: Stories of Conflict and Humanity during War. An honors graduate of Smith College and the University of Chicago, Monroe has taught at SUNY Stony Brook, the University of British Columbia, NYU, Princeton, and Harvard. She is currently completing a trilogy on moral courage and a book on science and ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments: From Babysitters to Elephants and John Stuart Mill's Maxims for Children
Preface: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Introduction: The Moral of the Story
Chapter 1. Walnut
Chapter 2. J. O.
 Chapter 3. Forgiveness and the Thin Red Line
Chapter 4. "I Got Nothing!"
Chapter 5. "It's an Important Political Problem. I Should Know About It." Agency
Chapter 6. Nicole's Father Is Not German!
Chapter 7. Science Fiction Fantasy, Moral Imagination and the Ability to Conceptualize Your Way Out of a Problem
Chapter 8. Passion
Chapter 9. Cat
Chapter 10. Best Friends Forever
Chapter 11. Wretched, Slacker Disney Child
Chapter 12. The Last Lecture.