Emotions in the Moral Life.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Robert Campbell, 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Virtues.
Emotions (Philosophy)
Virtues
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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