Ruling Passions A Theory of Practical

Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Distinguished philosopher Simon Blackburn seeks the answers to such questions in this brilliant exploration of the nature of moral emotions and the structures of human motivation. Ruling Passions reveals how ethics can maintain its authority even though it is rooted in the very emotions and motivations that it exists to control.

Simon Blackburn is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also holds an adjunct Chair at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences. From 1969 to 1990 he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford, and from 1984 to 1990 he edited the journal Mind. He is the author of the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

Organizing Practice: The Elements Of Ethics

1

(24)

A Practical Subject

1

(3)

Inputs and Outputs

4

(4)

Emotional Ascent

8

(6)

Guilt, Shame, and the Rejection of Ethics

14

(7)

Privacy and Principle

21

(3)

Things That Concern Us

24

(24)

Virtues, Ends, Duties

24

(8)

Virtue First?

32

(5)

Duty First?

37

(3)

Explanation and Justification

40

(3)

Consequentialism First: One Thought Too Few?

43

(5)

Naturalizing Norms

48

(36)

In the Beginning was the Deed

48

(3)

Prelude: Norms and Functions

51

(8)

States of Mind: Satan and Othello

59

(9)

The Ethical Proposition and Frege's Abyss

68

(9)

Representation and Minimalism

77

(7)

The Ethical Proposition: What It Is Not

84

(38)

Dionysus and Apollo

84

(8)

Concepts, Rules, and Forms of Life

92

(5)

Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind?

97

(4)

The Cute and the Lewd

101

(3)

Response-Dependent Accounts

104

(15)

Cornell Realism

119

(3)

Looking Out For Yourself

122

(39)

Emotions and Decisions

122

(12)

Economic Man

134

(3)

The Empirical Claim: Butler on Desire and Interest

137

(7)

The Self and Biology

144

(9)

Self-Regarding versus Self-Referential Desire

153

(4)

Ought We to Be Selfish?

157

(4)

Game Theory and Rational Choice

161

(39)

Utilities, Preferences, and Choices

161

(7)

Blackmailers and Centipedes

168

(8)

The Prisoners' Dilemma

176

(7)

Toxins, Boxes, and Reasons

183

(8)

The Growth of Trust

191

(9)

The Good, The Right, and the Common Point of View

200

(38)

Vibrating in Sympathy: Hume and Smith

200

(12)

Aristotle's Well-Being

212

(2)

Kant's Dream

214

(10)

Hare's Version

224

(9)

The Knave Again

233

(5)

Self-Control: Reason, and Freedom

238

(41)

Self-Control: Hume-Friendly Reason

238

(5)

The Kantian Captain

243

(7)

The Fundamental Mistake about Deliberation

250

(6)

Self-Legislation, Practical Identity, and the Normative Question

256

(5)

Rational Selves

261

(8)

Reason, Rawls, Contracts, and Liberalism

269

(10)

Relativism, Subjectivism, Knowledge

279

(32)

Relativism in a First-Order Ethic

279

(7)

Postmodernist Relativism

286

(8)

Ramsey's Ladder

294

(4)

Relativism and Authority

298

(6)

Knowledge, Objectivity, Truth

304

(7)

Appendix: Common Questions

311

(10)

Bibliography

321

(8)

Index

329

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