Title Practical guilt : moral dilemmas, emotions, and social norms / P.S. Greenspan

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) Contents 1. Defusing Dilemmas -- 2. Practical Oughts and Prohibitions -- 3. Motivational Foundations of Conflict -- 4. Moral Residues -- 5. Unavoidable Guilt -- 6. Basing Ethics on Emotion Summary "In this original contribution to the study of morality, P.S. Greenspan uses the treatment of moral dilemmas as the basis for an alternative view of the structure of ethics and its relation to human psychology. Greenspan argues that moral dilemmas may be regarded as possible consequences of a set of social rules designed to be simple enough to be teachable. Where these rules prohibit action either way, the problematic motivational force of dilemmas can be explained by reference to the role of emotion as a substitute for action." "Guilt is seen as a natural but contested candidate for the sort of emotional sanction for wrongdoing that might supply motivational force in dilemmas. It functions as a way of preserving virtue against moral luck. Greenspan defends guilt in the face of dilemmas on the basis of a "non-judgmentalist" account of emotions that accepts guilt as appropriate even in some cases of unavoidable wrongdoing." "In its treatment of the role of emotion in ethics, the argument of the book outlines a new way of packing motivational force into moral meaning that allows for a socially based version of moral realism. Since, on the proposed account, emotions underpin the teaching of moral language, human emotional capacities impose constraints on the nature of a viable moral code and thus affect the content of morality. Book jacket."--Jacket Analysis Philosophy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Guilt. Emotions (Philosophy) Social norms Ethics. Guilt Ethics ethics (philosophy) guilt. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism. Emotions (Philosophy) Ethics Guilt Social norms Schuld. Waarden. Dilemma's. Moralisches Urteil Schuldgefühl Soziale Norm Guilt. Emotions (Philosophy) Social norms. Dilemma. Form Electronic book LC no. 93040067 ISBN 1423764994 9781423764991 9780195090901 019509090X 1280441704 9781280441707 9786610441709 6610441707

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