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The View from Here. On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret.
R. Jay Wallace
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Description for The View from Here. On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret.
Paperback. The View from Here is a study of our most fundamental attitudes toward the past. The book explores the dynamics of affirmation and regret, tracing the connections of each to our ongoing attachments. The focus is on situations in which our attachments commit us to affirming events or decisions that we know to have been unfortunate or regrettable. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190660758
SKU
V9780190660758
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About R. Jay Wallace
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.
Reviews for The View from Here. On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret.
Interesting, careful and occasionally outrageous.
Thomas Nagel, London Review of Books
An intelligent and sophisticated treatment of a comparatively neglected topic within moral psychology that deserves to be widely read by anyone with an interest in ethics or political philosophy.
Alan Thomas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Bristles with insightful and well-parsed observations about practical thought.... Wallace's ... Read more
Thomas Nagel, London Review of Books
An intelligent and sophisticated treatment of a comparatively neglected topic within moral psychology that deserves to be widely read by anyone with an interest in ethics or political philosophy.
Alan Thomas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Bristles with insightful and well-parsed observations about practical thought.... Wallace's ... Read more