In praise of desire /
'In Praise of Desire' aims to show that ordinary desires belong at the heart of moral psychology, basing its thesis on a doctrine called Spare Conativism. It gives a full defence of the central role intrinsic desires have in our moral lives.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Oxford moral theory.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1.1 Moral Psychology 1
- 1.2 Reason and Appetite 2
- 1.3 Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Realizer Desires 6
- 1.4 The Many Guises of the Good 14
- 1.5 The Work to Be Done 16
- Part I Reason
- 1 Deliberation 19
- 1.1 The Nature of Deliberation 21
- 1.2 The Rationality of Acts of Deliberation 26
- 1.3 Deliberation and Regress 29
- 1.4 Other Objections 33
- 1.5 Deliberative Exceptionalism 36
- 1.6 Is There an Ambiguity? 37
- 1.7 If Not Deliberation, Then Representation? 40
- 1.8 Thinking and Acting for Reasons without Deliberation 42
- 2 How Deliberation Works 43
- 2.1 The Role of Deliberation 43
- 2.2 How Deliberation Works 47
- 2.3 The Moral of the Story 50
- 3 Thinking and Acting for Reasons 53
- 3.1 Objective Reasons and Rationalizing Reasons 53
- 3.2 Physical Properties, Contents, and Reasons 56
- 3.3 Because of Reasons 61
- 3.4 Reasons, Causes, and Mountain Climbers 67
- 3.5 Acting for Bad Reasons 72
- 3.6 Thinking and Acting for Multiple Reasons and Nonreasons 75
- 3.7 Habit and Inaction 80
- 3.8 Acting for Moral Reasons 86
- Part II Desire
- 4 Love and Care 93
- 4.1 Love 93
- 4.2 Care 104
- 5 What Desires Are Not 110
- 5.1 Action Is Not the Essence of Desire 111
- 5.2 Feeling Is Not the Essence of Desire 116
- 6 What Desires Are 126
- 6.1 The Reward and Punishment Systems 127
- 6.2 The Reward System Causes What Desires Cause 137
- 6.3 Intrinsic Desires are a Natural Kind 143
- 6.4 Solutions and Promissory Notes 146
- Part III Virtue
- 7 Credit and Blame 159
- 7.1 Attributability and Accountability 159
- 7.2 Good Will and Ill Will 162
- 7.3 A Theory of Praise-and Blameworthiness 169
- 7.4 Side Constraints 171
- 7.5 Conceptualization 176
- 7.6 Too Much Credit, Too Much Blame 187
- 7.7 Partial Good and 111 Will 194
- 8 Virtue 200
- 8.1 A Theory of Virtue 202
- 8.2 The Theory Applied 203
- 8.3 Virtues and Their Effects 206
- 8.4 Virtue and Involuntary Attitudes: Two Alternative Views 215
- 8.5 Virtuous Irrationality 219
- 8.6 The Unity of the Virtues 221
- 9 Virtue and Cognition 225
- 9.1 Familiar Cognitive Effects of Desire 226
- 9.2 The Effects of Good Will on Cognition 231
- 9.3 The Vice of Being Prejudiced 233
- 9.4 The Vice of Being Close-Minded 239
- 9.5 The Virtue of Being Open-Minded 241
- 9.6 Modesty and Immodesty 245
- 9.7 Vicious Dreams 250
- Part IV Puzzles
- 10 Inner Struggle 259
- 10.1 Akrasia 259
- 10.2 The Experience of Inner Struggle 261
- 10.3 Inner Struggle Explained 265
- 11 Addiction 274
- 11.1 The Puzzle 274
- 11.2 The Science of Addiction 276
- 11.3 The Philosophy of Addiction 285
- 11.4 The Blameworthiness of Addicts 287
- 11.5 Addiction in Moral Psychology 289.