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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... talk with fresh people; they put up with my neglect and philosophical preoccupation. Mary has been my greatest support, Stephen my most avid interlocutor, and George my sternest critic. Contents I · ANALYSES 1. The Puzzle 2. Nature and.
... talk with fresh people ; they put up with my neglect and philosophical preoccupation . Mary has been my greatest support , Stephen my most avid interlocutor , and George my sternest critic . Contents I ANALYSES 1. The Puzzle 3 2. Nature ...
... talk. The two kinds of talk are not the same, but one grows out of the other. As part of a 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 ...
... talking , perhaps making artifacts at the same time . At night , families talk late by their fires , or visit at other family fires with their children between their knees or in their arms if the wind is cold . " 1 The ! Kung criticize ...
... talk by nature , and whoever thinks and talks can be led , unless he is careful , into wider questions . That may not be what makes everyone's life worth living , but it grows out of parts of our being we could not be without . 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 |