Reason over passion : the social basis of evaluation and appraisal / / Evan Simpson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154973103321
• Autore: Simpson Evan <1940->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979
• ISBN: 9786613811363; 9781554585892; 1554585899; 9781282233621; 1282233629; 9780889206120; 0889206120
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.8
• Soggetti: Values; Reason; Emotions; Ethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Outline of the Argument -- Attitudes -- How Attitudes Embody Belief -- The Assessment of Attitudes -- Our Metaphysical Reasons for Action -- Affective Perception -- Evaluation -- Attitude-Worthiness -- The Verification of Value -- Desirability -- Characterization -- Varieties of Characterization -- Characterizing Behaviour -- Characterization vs. Evaluation -- Agreement and Reality -- Culture -- Institutions -- Cultural Facts and Fictions -- Human Nature -- Morality -- Five Types of Ethical Theory -- Human Respectability -- Religious Belief -- Educating the Emotions -- Scholarly Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Reason is not passion's slave." Rather, the author argues, reason appraises the cultural appropriateness of passion, thus directing our attitudinal behaviour. He refutes those theories of value which ; correspond philosophically to societies described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: societies of "honour without virtue, reason without wisdom, pleasure without happiness." His argument, which takes into account traditional philosophic positions, is divided into five parts: Attitudes, Evaluation, Characterization, Culture, Morality.