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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A Theory of Normative Judgment Allan Gibbard. bation , and the like , we are not drawing on a special scientific ... theory of human emotions is currently well established , and so I must offer more speculation . If moral language works ...
Contents
The Puzzle 33858 | 3 |
Nature and Judgment | 23 |
Analyses Broached | 36 |
Copyright | |
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