Michael L. Frazer

The Enlightenment of Sympathy

Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today

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Produktbeschreibung

The Enlightenment of Sympathy reclaims the sentimentalist theory of reflective autonomy as a resource for enriching social science, normative theory, and political practice today. The sentimentalist description of the reflective process is more empirically accurate than the competing rationalist description, and can guide scientists investigating the processes by which the mind formulates moral and political principles. Yet the theory is much more thanmerely descriptive, and can also contribute to the philosophical project of finding principles¿including principles of justice¿that wield genuine normative authority. Enlightenment sentimentalism demonstrates that emotion is necessarily central to our civic life, and shows how our reflective sentiments cancounterbalance the unreflective feelings that might otherwise lead our political principles astray.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780199920235
• ISBN-10: 0199920230
• Artikelnr.: 35284002

Autorenporträt

Michael L. Frazer is an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on Enlightenment political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. Professor Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche, John Rawls and Leo Strauss in such journals as Political Theory and The Review of Politics. Before arriving at Harvard, he studied at Yale and Princeton Universities, and received a postdoctoral appointment in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. He lives in Somerville, MA with his wife Coral and son Oren.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Tale of Two Enlightenments
Chapter 1: Sentimentalism Before Hume
I. The New Science of Human Nature
II. Religious and Metaphysical Foundations
III. Theories of Justice
Chapter 2: Hume's Free-Standing Sentimentalism
I. Sympathy and the Moral Sentiments
II. Moral Development
III. Hume's Normative Theory
Chapter 3: Hume's Conservative Sentimentalism
I. Hume's Theory of Justice
II. The Sentimentalist Case Against Hume's Theory
Chapter 4: Adam Smith's Liberal Sentimentalism
I. The Alleged Incompatibility of Sentimentalism with Individualism
II. The Space Between Actor and Spectator: Sympathy and Moral Judgment
III. The Space Between Actors: Justice and Natural Jurisprudence
Chapter 5: Kant's Abandonment of Sentimentalism
I. The Critical-Period Position on the Foundations of Morals
II. The Critical-Period Normative Evaluation of Sympathy
III. The Critical-Period Theory of Affects and Passions
IV. A Contrasting Pre-Critical Position
Chapter 6: Herder's Pluralist Sentimentalism
I. Sentimentalism and the Problem of Diversity
II. From Sympathy to Diversity
III. From Diversity to Empathetic Understanding
IV. From Empathetic Understanding to Justice
Chapter 7: Sentimentalism Today
I. Sentimentalism and Social Science
II. Sentimentalism and Normative Theory
III. Sentimentalism and Political Practice
Bibliography