A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind write by Michael Slote. This book was released on 2014. A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael Slote argues that emotion is involved in all human thought and action on conceptual grounds, rather than merely being causally connected with other aspects of the mind. This kind of general sentimentalism about the mind goes beyond that advocated by Hume, and the book's main arguments are only partially anticipated in German Romanticism and in the Chinese philosophical tendency to avoid rigid distinctions between thought and emotion. The new sentimentalist philosophy of mind Slote proposes can solve important problems about the nature of belief and action that other approaches -- including Pragmatism -- fail to address. In arguing for the centrality of emotion within philosophy of the mind, A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind continues the critique of rationalist philosophical views that began with Slote's Moral Sentimentalism (OUP, 2010) and continued in his From Enlightenment to Receptivity (OUP, 2013). This new book also delves into what is distinctive about human minds, arguing that there is a greater variety to ordinary human motives than has been recognized and that emotions play a central role in this complex psychology.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Theory of Moral Sentiments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theory of Moral Sentiments write by Adam Smith (économiste). This book was released on 1812. The Theory of Moral Sentiments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Moral Sentimentalism
Moral Sentimentalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral Sentimentalism write by Michael Slote. This book was released on 2010-01-05. Moral Sentimentalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or phenomenon of empathy. Hume sought to do something like this over two centuries ago, though he didn't have the term "empathy" and used "sympathy" instead; and in effect Slote is seeking to give moral sentimentalism a "second wind" in and for contemporary circumstances. By relying systematically on empathy in its account of normative morality and in what it has to say about the meaning of moral vocabulary, Moral Sentimentalism offers a unified overall ethical picture that can then be tested against ethical rationalism. Rationalism has recently dominated the scene in ethics, but by showing how sentimentalism can make coherent and intuitive sense of such preferred rationalist notions as autonomy, respect, and justice--and by showing how a sentimentalism based in empathy can deal with ethically significant aspects of the moral life that rationalism tends to ignore or skimp on--Slote hopes a wider and more active debate between rationalism and sentimentalism can be set in motion. There are signs that sentimentalist modes of thought are gaining new footholds on the way ethics is done, and this new book is very hopeful about these possibilities.
Ethical Sentimentalism
Ethical Sentimentalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethical Sentimentalism write by Remy Debes. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Ethical Sentimentalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in ethical sentimentalism, a moral theory first articulated during the Scottish Enlightenment. Ethical Sentimentalism promises a conception of morality that is grounded in a realistic account of human psychology, which, correspondingly, acknowledges the central place of emotion in our moral lives. However, this promise has encountered its share of philosophical difficulties. Chief among them is the question of how to square the limited scope of human motivation and psychological mechanism - so easily influenced by personal, social, and cultural circumstance - with the seeming universal scope and objective nature of moral judgment. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive evaluation of the sentimentalist project with a particular eye to this difficulty. Each essay offers critical clarification, innovative answers to central challenges, and new directions for ethical sentimentalism in general.
On Moral Sentimentalism
On Moral Sentimentalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Moral Sentimentalism write by Neil Roughley. This book was released on 2015-09-18. On Moral Sentimentalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael Slote has long been one of the foremost contributors to discussions in moral theory. Both his work on consequentialism and his particular version of virtue ethics have been highly influential. In recent years, Slote has developed a distinctive and original voice, placing his various theoretical endeavours under the title of “sentimentalism”. His key ethical work in this context is Moral Sentimentalism, which, uniquely, defends versions of both a metaethical and aretaic sentimentalist theory. The present volume is an extended discussion of that work, containing eight original commentaries and a substantial response by Slote, which provide fresh insights into his position. The collection will be of significant value to anyone interested in contemporary debates in meta-ethics or normative ethics.
