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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... human life and thought . The term " rational " itself crops up rarely in everyday thinking , but using the term we ... humans who can think about rationality and justification and morality ? I became convinced that new work in ...
... human life , and by thinking about the evolution of a highly social , linguistic species like ours , we can start to see why . My speculations on this score are at best the roughest approximations to the truth . Still , I try sketching ...
... human moral capacities , that reciprocity gives rise to questions of fairness , and that consequently judgments of fairness and sentiments of fair reciprocity are central to our moral experience . Late in the book I grapple with Rawls's ...
... human way of living, we think and discuss what it makes sense to do, and how it makes sense to feel about things. This thought and talk nudge us toward refinement. Wise choices and apt feelings figure in talk at both extremes: in ...
... human beings it has always been so . The ! Kung of the Kalahari are hunter - gatherers , and perhaps in them we can see what our hunting- gathering forebears were like . " Conversation in a ! Kung encampment is a constant sound like the ...
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 |