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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... alternative rational , or another irrational ? That is the puzzle of the book , and my hope is that from working on it , we can learn things worth learning about ourselves and about our questions . In part the question how to live is ...
... language emerged as a distinct alternative with Barnes ( 1933 ) , Ayer ( 1936 , chap . 6 ) , and Stevenson ( 1937 ) . Later Hare's version stood out ( 1952 , 1963 , 1981 ) . The analysis is non - substantive , in that one 8 Analyses ·
... alternative will do better on the whole . What I have said is thus no refutation of Brandt : it simply shows a respect in which we might hope to do better . What we should note , though , is that the funny cases — the cases where ...
... alternatives . Now I agree that anything we say at this point must be speculative , but we have some ways of assessing spec- ulations as promising or unpromising , and we need to speculate to know where to look next . As for the ...
... alternatives compare ? I claim that much of ordinary thought comes out as intelligible on the analyses I shall be giving . Important parts of human life are explained . An analysis can be offered not as a bald statement of fact about ...
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 |