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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... moral philosophers for the first two - thirds of this century . Might some of their techniques work , then , for ra ... morality , of what is worth having , of whether a claim merits credence , of what is shameful and what is cause for ...
... moral questions as spe- cial questions of rationality , somehow connected with moral emotions . I am influenced by his account of the social workings of morality , and I follow him in looking to these workings as the key to moral theory and ...
... moral thought in the world and its bearing on moral justification — views greatly worth study . I might say schematically that Brandt sets the agenda of the book , and Rawls pro- vides some of the moral psychology . This book has been ...
... MORAL INQUIRY 14. Moral Concern 253 15. Assessing Feelings 274 16. Structural Questions 293 17. Moral System 310 References Index 329 339.
... morality. We can understand the term broadly or narrowly. Broadly the moral question is how to live. Narrowly, we might try saying, morality concerns moral sentiments: the sentiments of guilt and resentment and their variants. Moral ...
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 |