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Perception, Empathy, and Judgment: An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance: An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance - Couverture souple

Vetlesen, Arne Johan

 
9780271010120: Perception, Empathy, and Judgment: An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance: An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance
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ISBN 10 : 0271010126 ISBN 13 : 9780271010120
Editeur : Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1994

Synopsis

In Perception, Empathy, and Judgment Arne Johan Vetlesen focuses on the indispensable role of emotion, especially the faculty of empathy, in morality. He contends that moral conduct is severely threatened once empathy is prevented from taking part in an interplay with cognitive faculties (such as abstraction or imagination) in acts of moral perception and judgment. Drawing on developmental psychology, especially British 'object relations' theory, to illuminate the nature and functioning of empathy, Vetlesen shows how moral performance is constituted by a sequence involving perception, judgment, and action, with an interplay between the agent's emotional (empathic) and cognitive faculties occurring at each stage.In the powerful tradition from Kant to present-day theorists such as Kohlberg, Rawls, and Habermas, reason is privileged over feeling and judgment over perception, in such a way that basic philosophical questions remain unasked. Vetlesen focuses our attention on these questions and challenges the long-standing assertion that emotions are damaging to moral response.In the final chapter he relates his argument to recent feminist critiques that have also castigated moral theorists in the Kantian tradition for their refusal to recognize a role for emotion in morality. While the book's argument is philosophical, its method and scope are interdisciplinary. In addition to critiques of such philosophers as Arendt, MacIntyre, and Habermas, it contains discussions of specific historical, ideological, and sociological factors that may cause "numbing"--selective or broad-ranging, pathological insensitivity--in humans. The Nazis' mass killing of Jews is studied to illuminate these and other relevant empirical aspects of large-scale immoral action.

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À propos de l'auteur

Arne Johan Vetlesen, whose dissertation was supervised by Jürgen Habermas, is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271010126
ISBN 13 
9780271010120
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
408
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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