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The Heart and its Attitudes Stephen Darwall (Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)

The Heart and its Attitudes By Stephen Darwall (Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)

The Heart and its Attitudes by Stephen Darwall (Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)


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Stephen Darwall explores a subject neglected by analytic philosophers: matters of the heart. He shows how the ways in which we humans achieve personal connection with each other in friendship and love, through mutual emotional vulnerability and sharing, are central are to what we value most about our lives, including our lives with animals.

The Heart and its Attitudes Summary

The Heart and its Attitudes by Stephen Darwall (Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)

Philosophers don't often write about the heart. At least, analytical philosophers don't. Why is this? Philosophers are said to live life in their heads rather than from their hearts. But even if that is so, why don't they think and write about the heart? Moreover, it can hardly have escaped philosophers' attention that matters of the heart are central to what we human beings value most about our lives, including our lives with animals. Philosophers write a lot about friendship and love, but they tend to do so in terms that leave out heartfelt connection. They speak rather of commitment to one another and each other's well-being, or taking each other as ends, or sharing deliberative standpoints or living life together, or a whole host of other topics, and much less about mutual emotional vulnerability and sharing and being in one another's hearts. Surely one explanation of philosophers' reticence is that talk of the heart seems unavoidably metaphorical. It turns out to be easy enough, however, to cash the metaphor in if we simply take heart refers to a cluster of emotional susceptibilities that have an essentially reciprocating structure. The heart aims at heartfelt connection-at shared experience of joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, and other personal emotions. We seek naturally to share these feelings with others and must suppress our natural tendencies if we wish to avoid doing so. Our heart's wish is to be open to other hearts in the hope that they will be open to ours, and thereby us, in return. This book is a systematic treatment-perhaps the first-of attitudes of the heart-remorse (versus guilt), love, trust, gratitude, personal anger (versus righteous anger), jealousy, and others-and their role in mediating personal relationship, attachment, and connection. This is obviously interesting in its own right, but it also shows how heartfelt attitudes mirror more extensively studied reactive attitudes of guilt, resentment, and blame (attitudes of the will). Whereas the latter mediate moral relations of mutual respect and accountability, attitudes of the heart are the currency of heartfelt connection and personal relationship.

About Stephen Darwall (Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)

Stephen Darwall is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. The author of numerous books and articles on moral philosophy and the history of ethics, he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001 and is a founding co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint. His books include The Second-Person Standpoint, Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant, Impartial Reason, Philosophical Ethics, Welfare and Rational Care, and The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740.

Table of Contents

1: Heart, the Very Idea 2: Respect and Love in Douglass and Baldwin 3: Two Species of Reactive Attitudes : Attitudes of the Will and Attitudes of the Heart 4: Two Contrasts: Guilt vs. Remorse and Moral Indignation vs. Personal Anger 5: Love: The Principal Attitude of the Heart 6: Trust and Hope 7: Lgstrup on Natural Trust and Love : (with Discussion of Murdoch and Kierkegaard) 8: Heartfelt Being with 9: Gratitude 10: Respect and Love in Reparations and Repair for Chattel Slavery and Its Legacy

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NGR9780198879565
9780198879565
0198879563
The Heart and its Attitudes by Stephen Darwall (Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2024-05-20
208
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