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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... some ways I found these visions less con- genial than Brandt's , but wrestling with them taught me new holds on deep philosophical issues . It was Rawls who convinced me of many of the themes I develop in this book : that viii • Preface.
... holds true.4 The word ' rational ' has a learned flavor , but the notion I have in mind is familiar . It is the one we use when we talk about " what it makes sense " to do or to believe , or when we speak of " the wise choice " in a ...
... holds : if a person had those intrinsic desires , and he had all relevant scientifically available infor- mation " present to awareness , vividly , at the focus of attention , or with an equal share of attention , " then he would be ...
... hold if I knew that I was created by a deity for some purpose of his : his goal need not be mine . If , fantastically , I knew that I had been created by a perverse deity so that he could laugh at my discomfitures , that would give me ...
... hold the beliefs we do depends on our thinking it makes sense to do so . It would be inco- herent , then , to dismiss all normative judgments as merely subjective , while accepting some factual beliefs as firmly and objectively grounded ...
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 |