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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 September 2009
      05 April 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511520044
      9780521801102
      9780521039116
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520044
      Dimensions:
      (236 x 168 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.432kg, 272 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.355kg, 272 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy
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    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm argues that standard philosophical answers to these questions presuppose a sharp distinction between cognition and conation that undermines an adequate understanding of values and their connection to motivation and deliberation. Rejecting this distinction, Helm argues that emotions are fundamental to any account of value and motivation, and he develops a detailed alternative theory both of emotions, desires and evaluative judgements and of their rational interconnections. The result is an innovative theory of practical rationality and of how we can control not only what we do but also what we value and who we are as persons.

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    "This book is a significant contribution to some of the most central debates in moral psychology and represents an important advance in the articulation of a broadly McDowellian approach to them." Ethics

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