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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... 189 11. Rationale and Warrant 204 12. Pragmatic Support 219 13. Communities of Judgment 233 · IV MORAL INQUIRY 14. Moral Concern 253 15. Assessing Feelings 274 16. Structural Questions 293 17. Moral System 310 References Index 329 339.
... concerns moral sentiments: the sentiments of guilt and resentment and their variants. Moral wrongs are acts to be avoided on pain of these sentiments. Morality in this narrow sense is a narrow part of life, but still, perhaps, something ...
... 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 by norms: action, and also belief and feeling ...
... . 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 Puzzle • 5.
... concerns moral sentiments : the sentiments of guilt and resentment and their variants . Moral wrongs are acts to be avoided on pain of these sentiments . Morality in this narrow sense is a narrow part of life , but still , perhaps ...
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 |