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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... course of 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 ...
... course , be offered as something other than a definition of ' rational ' in the sense I am after . In that case , noth- ing I am saying speaks for or against them . The axioms may be offered as a substantive account of the nature of ...
... course , any theory will be too crude ; but we should work for as richly successful theories as we can get — theories that combine biological rigor with a humanistic eye for the complexities of the human psyche . We should draw on the ...
... course , a reason to the contrary . Any link between evolutionary con- siderations and what it makes sense to want will be subtle and indirect . Evolutionary thought about humanity has been controversial . 6 Some of the controversy ...
... course , to clarify what we are asking . We want to know what makes acts right or wrong , sensible or foolish . If we want good answers , it seems , we ought first to know what we are asking . When questions seem deeply proble- matical ...
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 |