| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Adam Smith : political economist cum moral philosopher -- Edmund Burke : apologist for Judaism? -- George Eliot : the wisdom of Dorothea -- Jane Austen : the education of Emma -- Charles Dickens : "a low writer" -- Benjamin Disraeli : the Tory imagination -- John Stuart Mill : the other Mill -- Walter Bagehot : a divided nature -- Lord Acton : the historian as moralist -- Alfred Marshall : the economics of chivalry -- John Buchan : an untimely appreciation -- The Knoxes : a God-haunted family -- Michael Oakeshott : the conservative disposition -- Winston Churchill : quite simply, a great man -- Lionel Trilling : the moral imagination |
| Summary |
The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy, Modern
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Political science -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012020626 |
| ISBN |
1442218304 |
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9781442218307 |
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