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

Koutoungos, A

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