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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... tell us? What does it mean to call something rational or irrational, a choice wise or foolish, a feeling apt or off the mark? My question shifts, then, from morality specifically to rationality in general. To call a thing rational is to ...
... tell stories , with verve if we can . Do these things engage us because they have point ? Are they ways of working matters through with each other , or playing them through ? Even when we are not pondering outright , we are caught up in ...
... tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do , and that life without this ...
... tell us whose good , if anyone's , reason com- mands we promote , but different theories tell us different things . Hume said that " Reason is , and ought only to be the slave of the passions , and can never pretend to any other office ...
... tell us ? What does it mean to call something rational or irrational , a choice wise or foolish , a feeling apt or off the mark ? My question shifts , then , from morality specifically to rationality in general . To call a thing ...
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 |