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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... experience . Late in the book I grapple with Rawls's treatment of compromise and toleration . In this work I disagree both with Brandt and with Rawls at many points , but always with thoughts I could not have had but for them . In ...
... experience our lives in normative terms, in terms of things it makes sense to do, to think, and to feel. The analysis joins this experience to the detached, scientific perspective. It tells what we can see ourselves as doing as we ...
... experience our lives in normative terms , in terms of things it makes sense to do , to think , and to feel . The analysis joins this experience to the detached , scientific perspective . It tells what we can see ourselves as doing as we ...
... experience ; but this duality is not significantly traceable into the statements of science taken one by one " ( 1951 , 39 ) . Now , without a linguistic component , how can there be clear sense in asking what a term means ? And if we ...
... experienced being angry and yet thinking that no wrong has been done , so that the anger is unjustified . In such cases , one feels as if a wrong had been done , but thinks that no wrong has been done . Where is the irrational belief ...
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 |