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The retreat of reason : a dilemma in the philosophy of life /

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'The Retreat of Reason' explores areas in which there is a conflict between the rational life and a life dedicated to maximization of fulfilment.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Persson, Ingmar
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Life.
Thought and thinking.
Reason.
Thinking
Pensée.
Raison.
thinking.
reason.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Life
Reason
Thought and thinking
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.