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In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emotional foundation. Evidence from brain imaging, social psychology, and psychopathology suggest that, when we judge something to be right or wrong, we are merely expressing our emotions. Prinz argues that these...

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Hovedforfatter: Prinz, Jesse J.
Andre forfattere: Jesse J. Prinz
Sprog:Undetermined
English
Udgivet: AOxford,New York Oxford University Press 2007
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Summary:In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emotional foundation. Evidence from brain imaging, social psychology, and psychopathology suggest that, when we judge something to be right or wrong, we are merely expressing our emotions. Prinz argues that these emotions do not track objective features of reality; rather, the rightness and wrongness of an act consists in the fact that people are disposed to have certain emotions towards it. In the second half of the book, he turns to a defense of moral relativism. Moral facts depend on emotional responses, and emotional responses vary from culture to culture
Fysisk beskrivelse:ix, 334 p.
ill.
25 cm
ISBN:019928301X
9780199283019