The retreat of reason a dilemma in the philosophy of life

The retreat of reason a dilemma in the philosophy of life

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Main Author: Persson, Ingmar
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Published: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 2005
Subjects:
Thought and thinking
Life
Reason
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300 # # |a vi, 494 p. 
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505 1 # |a 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 
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