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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... bears on my choice , what it is rational for me to do is what it is advisable for me to do . Otherwise the two may differ , and full information pertains to advisability.21 Perhaps rationality in action is best construed , in the spirit ...
... bear on anything philosophical ? Philosophers often put empirical questions aside . They divorce normative studies from psychology and biology , and even studies of meaning they may try to divorce from the empir- ical . They limit their ...
... bear on moral theory . Nagel ( 1978 ) denies any significant bearing . If ethics , he says , " is a theoretical inquiry that can be approached by rational methods and that has internal standards of justification and criticism , the ...
... bear scrutiny . It may well seem that we can appraise as rational or irrational only what is under a person's vol- untary control . Emotions fail this test , since they are not under a per- son's direct voluntary control . True , they ...
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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 |