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? |
From inside the book
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... Action , " Social Theory and Prac- tice 9 ( 1983 ) . Parts of this book coincide extensively with the following articles : " Moral Judgment and the Acceptance of Norms , " Ethics 95 ( 1985 ) ; " Normative Objectivity , " Nous 19 ( 1985 ) ...
... action, and also belief and feeling. A good account of humanity will include a story of norms, a story of psychic mechanisms that make for their acceptance. The story will show these mechanisms in interaction and exhibit their adaptive ...
... action ( prosecuting his father ) . Still , it is not this abnormal foolishness that leaves him vulnerable to Socrates's techniques . Euthyphro is abnormally foolish but nor- mally prone to be tripped in his reasoning . what do they ...
... action or feeling while denying another is to invite puzzlement . I shall be using the learned term ' rational ' in ... actions , and it applies to the rationality of beliefs and feelings . We assess a wide range of things as rational or ...
... action , and also belief and feeling . A good account of humanity will include a story of norms , a story of psychic mechanisms that make for their acceptance . The story will show these mechanisms in inter- action and exhibit their ...
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 |