Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative JudgmentThis book examines some of the deepest questions in philosophy: What is involved in judging a belief, action, or feeling to be rational? What place does morality have in the kind of life it makes most sense to lead? How are we to understand claims to objectivity in moral judgments and in judgments of rationality? When we find ourselves in fundamental disagreement with whole communities, how can we understand our disagreement and cope with it? |
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... perhaps even over- acknowledging our contributions . This was a heady role for students to play . Rawls exposed me to philosophical visions quite unlike any I had encountered before . In some ways I found these visions less con- genial ...
... perhaps, something we need as a set of constraints. It seems worthwhile examining these constraints and asking whether they should matter. To feel guilt or resentment is not in itself to make a moral judgment. A person can feel guilty ...
... perhaps in them we can see what our hunting- gathering forebears were like . " Conversation in a ! Kung encampment is a constant sound like the sound of a brook , and as low and lapping , except for shrieks of laughter . People cluster ...
... perhaps do . Socrates drank the hemlock for pressing too far these questions of how to live . What he did , and the Sophists before him , was start from the materials of common thought and speech , and refine them . Euthy- phro could ...
... perhaps . In any case , moral theories abound that say what the tie is or what it is not . They tell us whose good , if anyone's , reason com- mands we promote , but different theories tell us different things . Hume said that " Reason ...
Contents
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Normative Psychology | 55 |
Normative Logic | 83 |
Natural Representation | 105 |
Moral Emotions | 126 |
First Steps | 153 |
Normative Authority | 171 |
MORAL INQUIRY | 250 |
References | 329 |
Index | 339 |