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Passions and emotions

Summary: "Throughout the history of moral, political, and legal philosophy, many have portrayed passions and emotions as being opposed to reason and good judgment. At the same time, others have defended passions and emotions as tempering reason and enriching judgment, and there is mounting empirical evidence linking emotions to moral judgment. In Passions and Emotions, a group of prominent scholars in philosophy, political science, and law explore three clusters of issues: "Passion & Impartiality: Passions & Emotions in Moral Judgment"; "Passion & Motivation: Passions & Emotions in Democratic Politics"; and "Passion & Dispassion: Passions & Emotions in Legal Interpretation." This timely, interdisciplinary volume examines many of the theoretical and practical legal, political, and moral issues raised by such questions"--

Record details

ISBN: 081476021X
ISBN: 9780814760215
ISBN: 9780814763490
ISBN: 0814763499
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages.
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Publisher: New York ; London : NYU Press, ©2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Constructive sentimentalism: legal and political implications / Jesse J. Prinz -- Sentimentalism without relativism / Michael L. Frazer -- Legislating with affect: emotion and legislative law making / Carol Sanger -- The nature and ethics of vengeful anger / Charles L. Griswold -- Reason, passion, and democratic politics: old conceptions-new understandings-new possibilities / George E. Marcus -- Emotion and deliberation: the autonomous citizen in the social world / Susan A. Bandes -- Reliable democratic habits and emotions / Cheshire Calhoun -- Democracy and the nonsovereign self / Sharon R. Krause -- The anti-empathic turn / Robin West -- Systems and feelings / Ken I. Kersch -- Anti-empathy and dispassionateness in adjudication / Benjamin C. Zipursky -- Equity over empathy / Bernadette Meyler.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.