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Moral Sensitivity and Desire Attachment: In What Sense are they Constituents of One's Rational Profile?

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dc.contributor.author Koutoungos, A en
dc.date.accessioned 2014-03-01T01:28:47Z
dc.date.available 2014-03-01T01:28:47Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en
dc.identifier.issn 0353-5150 en
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/18978
dc.subject Moral incoherence en
dc.subject Rationality en
dc.subject Weak-will en
dc.subject Equilibrium en
dc.subject Resistance en
dc.subject Internalism en
dc.title Moral Sensitivity and Desire Attachment: In What Sense are they Constituents of One's Rational Profile? en
heal.type journalArticle en
heal.identifier.primary 10.1007/s12136-008-0025-1 en
heal.identifier.secondary http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12136-008-0025-1 en
heal.language English en
heal.publicationDate 2008 en
heal.abstract A quantitative interpretation is given of the (in)coherence that moral agents experience as a tension between their ordered moral judgments over n physically incompatible actions, and the competitive ordering of motivating intensities (or, desires). Then a model describing one's tendency to reduce the experienced incoherence is constructed. In this model, moral sensitivity (S) and desire attachment (e) function as primitives that motivate from opposing perspectives the reduction of incoherence. Two distinct sub-processes of this reduction are therefore initiated by (S) and (e) co-ordinated (more or less efficiently) by the agent's degree of rationality (R) characteristic of her capacity to handle such internal tensions. This process ends when a new equilibrium between what motivates and what resists (further) reduction has been reached. A macro-equilibrium is described involving (R) constrained by weakness-of-will (W-w). A reinterpretation of the Aristotelian characters (enkrates, akrates, etc.) and an exegesis of Hume's 'Calm Passions' follow as applications. en
heal.publisher SPRINGER en
heal.journalName ACTA ANALYTICA-INTERNATIONAL PERIODICAL FOR PHILOSOPHY IN THE ANALYTICAL TRADITION en
dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s12136-008-0025-1 en
dc.identifier.isi ISI:000263235300003 en
dc.identifier.volume 23 en
dc.identifier.issue 2 en
dc.identifier.spage 125 en
dc.identifier.epage 145 en


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