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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... 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 we need as a set of constraints. It seems ...
... 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 , some- thing we need as a set of constraints . It ...
... propensities concerning such things as resentment , guilt , shame , and moral inspiration . The ways these propensities manifest themselves may differ sharply across different kinds of societies , but Nature and Judgment • 27.
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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 |