Preface
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