The pioneering moral philosopher Annette Baier presents a series of new and recent essays in ethics, broadly conceived to include both engagements with other philosophers and personal meditations on life. Baier's unique voice and insight illuminate a wide range of topics. In the public sphere,
she enquires into patriotism, what we owe future people, and what toleration we should have for killing. In the private sphere, she discusses honesty, self-knowledge, hope, sympathy, and self-trust, and offers personal reflections on faces, friendship, and alienating affection.
Preface
1. The rights of past and future generations
2. For the sake of future generations
3. Can philosophers be patriots?
4. Discriminate death-dealing
5. Why Honesty is a hard virtue
6. How to get to know one's own mind: some simple ways
7. Getting in Touch with our
own Feelings
8. Feelings that Matter
9. Trust, demoralization, and the virtues
10. Sympathy and self-trust
11. Putting Hope in its Place
12. Losing friends
13. Alienating affection
14. Faces, and other body parts
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Annette Baier is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
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