The retreat of reason : a dilemma in the philosophy of life / Ingmar Persson
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| | | | | | The retreat of reason : a dilemma in the philosophy of life. - Oxford. - New York , 2005. | | vi, 494 p. | | Part I: The nature of para-cognitive attitudes -- Pain as a sensory quality -- Pleasure as a sensory quality -- Beyond hedonism -- An analysis of desire -- The concept of emotion -- A typology of emotion -- Part II: Reason and value -- Introduction: subjectivism and objectivism -- The structure of reasons : internalism -- An objective requirement? -- The desire relativity of value -- The rationality of para-cognitive attitudes -- Weakness of will -- Representational mechanisms -- Part III: Rationality and temporal neutrality -- The notion of a temporal bias -- The irrationality of the bias towards the near -- The irrationality of the bias towards the future -- The dilemma as regards temporal neutrality -- Part V: Rationality and personal neutrality -- Introduction: the bias towards oneself -- Self and body -- Psychological theories of our identity -- Somatist theories of our identity -- The identity of material bodies -- The rational insignificance of identity and continuity -- Self-concern and self-approval -- Concern for and approval of others -- Prudence : maximization or idealism? -- The requirement of personal neutrality -- Moral individualism : autonomy and agreement -- The dilemma as regards personal neutrality --Part V: Rationality and responsibility -- Predictability and the experience of freedom -- Compatibilist freedom of action -- Compatibilist freedom of will -- Responsibility and desert -- The deontological element of responsibility -- The emotive genesis of desert -- The dilemma as regards responsibility -- Conclusion: the conflict between rationalism and satisfactionalism. | | ISBN 0199276900 (alk. paper). | | | | 1. Thought and thinking 2. Life 3. Reason.I. Title | | http://ptarpp2.uitm.edu.my/ptarpprack/RAK-7.gif | | | Library : UiTM Shah Alam |
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