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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... claim merits credence , of what is shameful and what is cause for pride — and indeed all the other kinds of thought that philosophers call normative . Rationality was a crucial notion to analyze . As I developed my theory , though , I ...
... claims that are sharply at odds. It would be good to see what might be at issue. My puzzle, then, is about Socrates, but it is also about the !Kung. I ask about moral philosophy, but also about everyday, non-philosophic life and thought ...
... claiming, and just as indispensable. Part of my concern, then, is to understand morality, but my total concern is much wider. Morality narrowly glossed is a part of broadly normative life in general. Diverse aspects of life are governed ...
... claims about reasons . Parfit ( 1984 , 313 ) argues at length against the claim that a rational person is " equally concerned about all the parts of his future . ” conscious philosophizing and in everyday banter and quarrel . I The ...
... and that does carry the meaning I want . Alas it also carries an unwanted claim of uniqueness , that it makes more sense to read the footnotes later than now . describing his own state of mind ; he is expressing The Puzzle • 7.
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 |