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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... concern — to why to care means assessing feel- ings . We must assess which feelings , if any , to take as guides . Now if we had one master source of moral concern - benevolence , say , or respect things might be straightforward . We ...
... concern in the end , or perhaps only one of them stands up to criticism . At first glance , though , each of them appears to have its own claim on us . When I ask after sources of moral concern , that suggests at least three kinds of ...
... concern , or to despair of treating morality as a genuine subject matter . For the most part , Sidgwick thought , the various sources of moral concern could be reconciled . Each in its place , modestly understood , has a rationale in ...
Contents
The Puzzle 33858 | 3 |
Nature and Judgment | 23 |
Analyses Broached | 36 |
Copyright | |
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