McCormick, P: Blindly Seeing

ContentsPrefaceIntroductions: Intuitions: Religious, Literary, and EthicalMoral IntuitionismMoral and Ethical VisionsA Condition for Moral and Ethical Vision?EnvoiEndnotesPart One: DiscoursesEssay I: Understanding European and Islamic CulturesLines From An Arabic LyricUnderstanding Figurative Discourses ExternallyA Difficulty With Cultural ExternalismUnderstanding Figurative Discourses InternallyA Problem With Cultural InternalismWhy Cultural Internalism and Externalism FailAn ObjectionWhat This Figurative Discourse Is AboutEnvoiEndnotesEssay II: Figurative Discourse in Japanese PoetryBeside the Stream of IzumiA Culturally Internalist Account of InterpretationInterpretation and MetaphysicsInterpretation as an Active Ascension of the SpiritMetaphysics and AestheticsInterpreting Figurative Discourses MetaphysicallyEnvoiEndnotesPart Two: Apprehending and SayingEssay III: On Being Enabled to Say What Is "Truly Real"Language and 'What Is Truly Real'Inquiring of ShinranIllusion, Deception, Lies and FoolishnessConsidering an InterpretationHearing a Second QuestionEnvoiEndnotesEssay IV: Apprehending Truths About SufferingRepresentative Eco-Ethical ClaimsElements of A Mixed Theory of TruthSelf-Referential Eco-Ethical ClaimsAn Eco-Ethical Theory of Truth?Eco-Ethical Claims and SufferingFictional Truths?EnvoiEndnotesPart Three: Ethics and SufferingEssay V: Elements for an Ethics of SufferingOrdinary Senses of "Suffering"Special Senses of "Suffering"What is the Suffering in an Ethics of Suffering?What An Ethics of Suffering Tries to AddressOn Several Elements for An Ethics of SufferingEnvoiEndnotesEssay VI: Seeing the Truth of Ethical MattersTruth as "Makoto"A Problem with Truth as Exclusively LogosIntuitions and Moral IntuitionismSeeing Ethical Values?Ethical Intuiting as "Seeing" Ethical TruthsEnvoiEndnotesEnvoi: Of Blindly Seeing