Wise Choices, Apt Feelings

Wise Choices, Apt Feelings
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9780198249849
ISBN-13 : 0198249845
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Book Synopsis Wise Choices, Apt Feelings by : Allan Gibbard

Download or read book Wise Choices, Apt Feelings written by Allan Gibbard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1992 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise explores what is at issue in narrowly moral questions, and in questions of rational thought and conduct in general. It helps to explain why normative thought and talk so pervade human life, and why our highly social species might have evolved to be gripped by these questions. The author asks how, if his theory is right, we can interpret our normative puzzles, and thus proceed toward finding answers to them.


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