Hard feelings : the moral psychology of contempt

Hard feelings : the moral psychology of contempt / by Macalester Bell.

Bell argues that contempt has an important role to play in confronting and addressing immorality, and in that respect is essential to moral relations. Her book is not just a defense of contempt, but an account of the virtues and vices of it providing a model for thinking more generally about the neg...

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Main Author: Bell, Macalester
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Contempt (Attitude)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
Psychology.
Geringschätzung
Moralpsychologie
Känslor.
Aversioner.
Moral.
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Summary:Bell argues that contempt has an important role to play in confronting and addressing immorality, and in that respect is essential to moral relations. Her book is not just a defense of contempt, but an account of the virtues and vices of it providing a model for thinking more generally about the negative emotions as a response to vice.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 292 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780199794256
0199794251
0199332622
9780199332625
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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