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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... reason for one person to promote some end, we must be able to discover an end which there is reason for anyone to promote, should he be in a position to do so.” 3 Thinking about reason leads people to claims that are sharply at odds. It ...
... reason about it ; he could not have lived the life he did without reasoning . We can be tripped because we walk , and Euthyphro could be tripped because he reasoned , and had to.2 Socrates ' path is avoidable , and yet not always with ...
... reason supports the whole of moral theory— perhaps . In any case , moral theories abound that say what the tie is or what it is not . They tell us whose good , if anyone's , reason com- mands we promote , but different theories tell us ...
... reason , strictly understood , yields only beliefs , chiefly about cause and effect . An irrational action , then , could only be an action founded on unreasonable belief — or , as Hume adds in his discussion of " unrea- sonable ...
... reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger . ' Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin , to prevent the least uneasiness to an Indian or person wholly unknown to me . ' Tis as ...
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 |