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  title info:
    title: In praise of ambivalence
  name:
    name part: Coates, D. Justin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 206 pages)
  abstract: "Ambivalence is a form of inner volitional conflict that we experience as being irresolvable without significant cost. Because of this, very few of us relish feelings of ambivalence. Yet for many in the Western philosophical tradition, ambivalence is not simply an unappealing experience that's hard to manage. According to the Unificationists, ambivalence is a failure of well-functioning agency. The reasons for this, we're told, are threefold. First, ambivalence precludes agents from resolving their wills in a way that is necessary for autonomy. Second, ambivalence precludes agents from fully affirming their lives, and in particular from fully affirming the choices they make. As a result, it robs them of an important source of meaning. Finally, ambivalence causes agents to act in self-defeating ways. In so doing, they act without integrity. Ambivalence is thus seen as a threat to a trio of important agential goods, and as a result, it imperils the best forms of human agency. In In Praise of Ambivalence Coates argues that ambivalence does not preclude volitional resolution or normatively significant forms of affirmation. Nor does it guarantee self-defeat. Consequently, ambivalence as such is no threat to autonomy, meaning, or integrity. In assessing these arguments, ambivalence is also revealed to have an important role in securing the very goods that unificationists contend it undermines. The best forms of human agency are therefore shown to be not only compatible with ambivalence but as regularly requiring it. Ambivalence is thus not a volitional defect, but a crucial constituent of well-functioning agency"--
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part I.A House Divided -- 2. Ambivalence -- 3. Resolving the Will -- 4. Affirmation and Ambivalence -- 5. Ambivalence without Self-Defeat -- 6. Ambivalence and Integrity -- Part II.A Wise Inconsistency -- 7. Normative Competence and Ambivalence -- 8. Morality and Meaningfulness -- 9. Conclusion: Being Large, Containing Multitudes -- Works Cited -- Index
  note: D. Justin Coates.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ambivalence
  subject:
    topic: Ambivalence
  subject:
    topic: Ambivalence
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: BF575.A45 C63 2023
  classification: 128/.4
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    title info:
      title: In praise of ambivalence
    name:
      name part: Coates, D. Justin.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
    identifier: (DLC) 2022029982
    identifier: (OCoLC)1342253736
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220624
    record change date: 20260318164522.6
    record identifier: in00005697270
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng