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View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret

View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:R. Jay WallacePublish date:2017-01-01Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190660758ISBN-10:190660759UPC:9780190660758Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Movements, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:HumanismSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCD63Z6R9S

Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the standpoint from which we look back on our lives is shaped by our present attachments-to persons, to the projects that imbue our lives with meaning, and to life itself. Through a distinctive "affirmation dynamic," these attachments commit us to affirming the necessary conditions of their objects. The result is that we are sometimes unable to regret events and circumstances that were originally unjustified or otherwise somehow objectionable.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190660758ISBN-10:190660759UPC:9780190660758Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Movements, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:HumanismSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCD63Z6R9S
R. Jay Wallace is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (1994), Normativity and the Will (OUP, 2006), and numerous papers on moral psychology, the theory of practical reason, the philosophy of responsibility, and other topics in philosophical ethics.
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