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In recent years there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in ethical sentimentalism, a moral theory first articulated during the Scottish Enlightenment. Ethical Sentimentalism promises a conception of morality that is grounded in a realistic account of human psychology, which, correspondingly, acknowledges the central place of emotion in our moral lives. However, this promise has encountered its share of philosophical difficulties. Chief among them is the question of how to square the limited scope of human motivation and psychological mechanism - so easily influenced by personal, social, and cultural circumstance - with the seeming universal scope and objective nature of moral judgment. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive evaluation of the sentimentalist project with a particular eye to this difficulty. Each essay offers critical clarification, innovative answers to central challenges, and new directions for ethical sentimentalism in general.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Interdisciplinary before the Disciplines: Sentimentalism and the Science of Man
- 2 Neo-Classical Sentimentalism
- 3 Moral Epistemology for Sentimentalists
- 4 Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, Explanatory Structure, and Anti-Realism
- 5 Sentimentalist Moral-Perceptual Experience and Realist Pretensions: A Phenomenological Inquiry
- 6 Sentimentalism and Realism in Epistemology and Ethics
- 7 Sentimentalism, Blameworthiness, and Wrongdoing
- 8 Reactive Attitudes and Second-Personal Address
- 9 The Authority of Empathy (Or, How to Ground Sentimentalism)
- 10 Smithian Constructivism: Elucidating the Reality of the Normative Domain
- 11 A Modest Feminist Sentimentalism: Empathy and Moral Understanding Across Social Difference
- 12 Moral Sentimentalism in Early Confucian Thought
- 13 Whither Sentimentalism? On Fear, the Fearsome, and the Dangerous
- References
- Index