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Author : Ferdinand David Schoeman
Release : 1987
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 513/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions by : Ferdinand David Schoeman
Download or read book Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions written by Ferdinand David Schoeman. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the responsibility individuals have for their actions and characters.
Author : John Sabini
Release : 1998-09-10
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 84X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Emotion, Character, and Responsibility by : John Sabini
Download or read book Emotion, Character, and Responsibility written by John Sabini. This book was released on 1998-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their new book, Emotion, Character, and Responsibility, John Sabini and Maury Silver examine a conflict in the way that psychologists, philosophers, and ordinary people think about character. Most of us share an intuition that emotions are central to who we are and the characters we have, even though emotions are unchosen. Yet we also share the intuition that action, choice, and responsibility are what count about our characters. This book deals with this conflict by exploring the relations between the chosen and unchosen, moral and nonmoral, in sincerity, loyalty, sympathy, shame, guilt, and embarrassment as they affect our characters. The conflict is resolved by finding an aesthetic as well as moral basis of character. Along the way the authors consider questions such as can one truly avow ones feelings and still be insincere? What, if anything, is lacking in the Star Trek character Mr. Spock? Why is loyalty toward particular people and not people in general a duty? Is it a good idea for guilt to replace shame? How can we describe genuine self-deception without relying on unconscious knowledge? The book ends with the radical proposal that some of the emotions do not exist, at least not in the way that motives exist. We will not find them on any present or future brain scan. And yet, the authors argue, emotions matter.
Author : John Sabini
Release : 1998
Genre : Character
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Book Rating : 931/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Emotion, Character, and Responsibility by : John Sabini
Download or read book Emotion, Character, and Responsibility written by John Sabini. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Glannon
Release : 2018-10-24
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 772/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Mental Basis of Responsibility by : Walter Glannon
Download or read book The Mental Basis of Responsibility written by Walter Glannon. This book was released on 2018-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: This book is an analysis of the ways in which mental states ground attributions of responsibility to persons. Particular features of the book include: attention to the agent’s epistemic capacity for beliefs about the foreseeable consequences of actions and omissions; attention to the essential role of emotions in prudential and moral reasoning; a conception of personal identity that can justify holding persons responsible at later times for actions performed at earlier times; an emphasis on neurobiology as the science that should inform our thinking about free will and responsibility; and the melding of literature on free will and responsibility in contemporary analytic philosophy with legal cases, abnormal psychology, neurology and psychiatry, which offers a richer texture to the general debate on the relevant issues.
Author : R. Jay Wallace
Release : 1998-01-08
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments by : R. Jay Wallace
Download or read book Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments written by R. Jay Wallace. This book was released on 1998-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Jay Wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will. Instead, he maintains, the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence: the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly. He shows how these forms of rational competence are compatible with determinism. At the same time, giving serious consideration to incompatibilist concerns, Wallace develops a compelling diagnosis of the common assumption that freedom is necessary for responsibility.
