Overview
How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm rejects the standard philosophical answers to these questions, which presuppose a sharp distinction between cognition and impulse, and develops a detailed alternative theory both of emotions, desires, and evaluative judgments and of their rational interconnections. The result is an innovative theory of practical rationality and how we can control not only what we do but also what we value and who we are as persons.
- | Author: Bennett W. Helm
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 05, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521801109
- | ISBN-13: 9780521801102
