Part 1. Imagination in Ethics: Philosophical Aspects

1. Contemporary Dilemmas in the Project of Ethical Understanding

The Failure of the Ethics of Principle
The Mark of the Ethical
Imagination's Fate

2. Hume and Smith: Imagination in the Extension of Sympathy

3. Kant

Kant's General Theory of Imagination
Imagination in Moral Judgement and Feeling

4. The Seeing-As Concept of Imagination

Introduction
Wittgenstein's Concept of Seeing-as
Schematisms of Interpretation

5. Ethical Ideas

The Nature of Ideals
Kierkegaard's Approach to Ethical Idealization
Ideals in Moral Reflection

6. The Moral Philosophy of the Self

Introduction
The Self in Moral Life

Part 2: Psychological Aspects

7. The Self in Classical Psychoanalysis

8. Ethical Idealization in Classical Psychoanalysis

Freud
Later Developments in Classical Psychoanalysis
Hartmann's Ego Psychology

9. Heinz Kohut's Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

The Bipolar Self
Metaphsychology

10. Narcissism and Ethical Idealization in Self Psychology

Part 3. Conclusions and Implications

11. Moral Authority for a Free People

Autonomy and Authority
Virtue Ethics Reconsidered
Theory and Practice: Relativism and the Theoretician's Dilemma Reconsidered
Democracy and Moral Authority

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index