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Emotions in the Moral Life.
Explains how emotions pervade ethical life, affecting our judgments, actions and relationships, and expressing our moral character, for better or worse.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; Figure; Acknowledgments; 1 Studying virtues; Virtues and theories; Why theory?; The vices of moral theory; An argument for moral theory; Exploring moral concepts: moral frameworks; Emotions, virtues, and moral understanding; The question of style; Apologetics and inter-framework debate; 2 The roles of emotions: an overview; Introduction; Epistemic value; Intrinsic practical value; Consequential value; Relational value; Eudaimonistic value; Aretaic value; Intrinsic value; 3 Emotions, perception, and moral judgment; Introduction; Some examples of moral judgments.
- Perception as construal: conceptual perceptionMore purely conceptual perception; Emotions as concern-based construals; Affect; Emotions and moral judgments; A complication; Deontological judgments and evaluative generalities; Emotions and moral reasoning; Conclusion; 4 Objections to the perception thesis; Introduction; Emotions are mediated by belief, memory, and imagination; Perceptions are of what is present, but emotions are often about what is absent; Evaluative properties differ significantly from secondary properties; A phenomenological argument.
- The phenomenal content (occasion) objectionThe belief-justifying character of perception; The causal condition of perception and epistemic justification; The beasts and babies objection; 5 Emotional truth; Introduction; Hume on emotions and virtues; Aristotle on emotional truth; Sentimentalism again; A way out that some may find attractive; Conclusion; 6 Emotions and actions; Introduction; Affect and motivation; Less rational cases; Emotions as defining actions; Emotions and the moral value of actions; Intrinsic value of actions: subject's relation to his emotion.
- Are all actions motivated by emotion?Reflections on affective motivation; Conclusion; 7 Personal relationships; Introduction; A value different from perceptual fit and action motivation; How emotions constitute personal relationships; Envy and pride; Contempt; Bad positive and good negative relationships; Modes of endorsement; Conclusion; 8 Emotions and happiness; Introduction; The meaning of happiness
- Two kinds of attunement; Depth and import; Scope; Goodness; Relativity to outlook; Moral outlook apologetics; Circumstantial transcendence; Objective and subjective happiness; Conclusion.
- 9 Diversity and connection among the virtuesIntroduction; Kinds of differences among virtues; Situational differences; Differences in the ways emotions figure in the virtues; Structural differences; Differences in how reasons figure in deliberation and emotion; Differences in degrees of maturity; Differences due to peculiarities of moral tradition; Kinds of interdependencies among virtues; Conclusion; References; Index.