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M. Mookie C. Manalili is Licensed Independent Certified Social Worker (LICSW) Psychotherapist, Professor and Researcher based in Boston, USA. He is completing his PhD in Pastoral Counseling and Psychology at Boston University. He is faculty at School of Social Work and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College, and is co-leader of the Psychological Humanities Lab. He is also in a private group practice in Boston, MA.

David M. Goodman is Clinical Psychologist and Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, USA, where he also serves as Executive Director for the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics. Dr. Goodman is on the faculty in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development and in the Philosophy department at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. He also has a private practice in Boston, MA.

Diana Boros is Professor of Political Theory in the Political Science Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland, the National Honors College. She is also affiliated faculty in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at SMCM. She has published books on the topics of art, public art, politics, and public space and is creator of the video podcast series "Hosting Art".

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Aesthetic Ethics: Towards a Moral Imagination seeks to challenge and expand the boundaries of how we conceive ethics and morality, proposing that beauty, sublimity and emotional resonances found in the realm of the arts are essential for re-imagining a more just and compassionate world.

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Introduction: Aesthetic Ethics? Towards the Beauty of Moral Imaginations

Part 1: Aesthetic Ethics as "Moral Attunement and Formation"

****1. Can the Experience of Beauty Make Us Better People? Thinking Otherwise about the Aesthetics/Ethics Connection

2. 'Aesthetic Articulations': Toward a Poetics of Formation

3. Small Tears in Logic: The Power of Poetic Image and Aesthetic Knowing

****4. Meaning and Morality: Shaping How the Light Shines In

5. The Power of Art to Shape our Ability to See: A Phenomenological Reflection on Rembrandt's Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Part 2: Aesthetic Ethics as "Responsibility and Attentive Witnessing"

6. Mourning the Dying of the Unharmed Self

7. To Speak of Suffering: Art's Ethical Obligation

8. Psychoanalysis, Art, and the Vale of Soul-Making

9. How to Build the Other from Scratch After Its Destruction?

10. Levinas, Decreative Hermeneutics, and Holocaust Testimony

Part 3: Aesthetic Ethics as "Political and Prophetic Action"

11. Whom Shall I Walk With? Reflections of a Black(ish) South African Scholar in the North American Academy

12. Spoken Futurities: Poetry, Prophecy, and Psychology

13. Aesthetic Motivation In Religious Activism

14. The Beloved Community as Aesthetic Theory: Intimations from Josiah Royce, Martin Luther King Jr., and Erich Fromm

15. Radical Empathy: Socially-Engaged Art as a Democratic Tool