Perception, Empathy, and Judgment

Name: Perception, Empathy, and Judgment
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press
SKU: 9780271010120
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An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance

Autor: Arne Johan Vetlesen

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Pennsylvania State University Press

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In Perception, Empathy, and Judgment Arne Johan Vetlesen focuses on the indispensable role of emotio...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Arne Johan Vetlesen

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1993

strony

404

EAN

9780271010120

ISBN

0271010126

Enbook ID

04047781

Wydawca

Pennsylvania State University Press

Waga

606

Wymiary

155 x 229 x 25

Pełny opis

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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