下一本要閱讀書的是什麼呢？
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合修 鄭
May 26, 2016, 7:18:32 AM5/26/16
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大家好，我們下一次要閱讀的書會是什麼呢？
請各位老師、同學提出建議，
我們再來進行線上表決。
Chen-Hsun Chiu
May 26, 2016, 8:30:57 AM5/26/16
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各位老師、同學：
我推薦上次帶到讀書會上的底下兩本：
1. R. Jay Wallace. The View from Here (2013).
Wallace 在這本書裡，重新考慮了 Bernard Williams 所提出的道德運氣問題，試圖回答我們在評價行為時要採取什麼樣的觀點，又要如何適當評價。
Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the standpoint from which we look back on our lives is shaped by our present attachments-to persons, to the projects that imbue our lives with meaning, and to life itself. Through a distinctive "affirmation dynamic", these attachments commit us to affirming the necessary conditions of their objects. The result is that we are sometimes unable to regret events and circumstances that were originally unjustified or otherwise somehow objectionable.
Wallace traces these themes through a range of examples. A teenage girl makes an ill-advised decision to conceive a child - but her love for the child once it has been born makes it impossible for her to regret that earlier decision. The painter Paul Gauguin abandons his family to pursue his true artistic calling (and eventual life project) in Tahiti--which means he cannot truly regret his abdication of familial responsibility. The View from Here offers new interpretations of these classic cases, challenging their treatment by Bernard Williams and others. Another example is the "bourgeois predicament": we are committed to affirming the regrettable social inequalities that make possible the expensive activities that give our lives meaning. Generalizing from such situations, Wallace defends the view that our attachments inevitably commit us to affirming historical conditions that we cannot regard as worthy of being affirmed--a modest form of nihilism.
Wallace traces these themes through a range of examples. A teenage girl makes an ill-advised decision to conceive a child - but her love for the child once it has been born makes it impossible for her to regret that earlier decision. The painter Paul Gauguin abandons his family to pursue his true artistic calling (and eventual life project) in Tahiti--which means he cannot truly regret his abdication of familial responsibility. The View from Here offers new interpretations of these classic cases, challenging their treatment by Bernard Williams and others. Another example is the "bourgeois predicament": we are committed to affirming the regrettable social inequalities that make possible the expensive activities that give our lives meaning. Generalizing from such situations, Wallace defends the view that our attachments inevitably commit us to affirming historical conditions that we cannot regard as worthy of being affirmed--a modest form of nihilism.
2. Macalester Bell, Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt (2013).
Bell 在這本博士論文所改寫的專書中，考慮了 contempt 在道德評價上的意義，並指出我們的道德生活中需要適當地理解 contempt，也才能夠真正掌握 respect 的意義。
At a time when respect is widely touted as an attitude of central moral importance, contempt is often derided as a thoroughly nasty emotion inimical to the respect we owe all persons. But while contempt is regularly dismissed as completely disvaluable, ethicists have had very little to say about what contempt is or whether it deserves its ugly reputation. Macalester Bell argues that we must reconsider contempt's role in our moral lives. While contempt can be experienced in inapt and disvaluable ways, it may also be a perfectly appropriate response that provides the best way of answering a range of neglected faults.
Using a wide variety of examples, Bell provides an account of the nature of contempt and its virtues and vices. While some insist that contempt is always unfitting because of its globalism, Bell argues that this objection mischaracterizes the person assessments at the heart of contempt. Contempt is, in some cases, the best way of responding to arrogance, hypocrisy, and other vices of superiority. Contempt does have a dark side, and inapt forms of contempt structure a host of social ills. Racism is best characterized as an especially pernicious form of inapt contempt, and Bell's account of contempt helps us better understand the moral badness of racism. It is argued that the best way of responding to race-based contempt is to mobilize a robust counter-contempt for racists.
The book concludes with a discussion of overcoming contempt through forgiveness. This account of forgiveness sheds light upon the broader issue of social reconciliation and what role reparations and memorials may play in giving persons reasons to overcome their contempt for institutions.
Using a wide variety of examples, Bell provides an account of the nature of contempt and its virtues and vices. While some insist that contempt is always unfitting because of its globalism, Bell argues that this objection mischaracterizes the person assessments at the heart of contempt. Contempt is, in some cases, the best way of responding to arrogance, hypocrisy, and other vices of superiority. Contempt does have a dark side, and inapt forms of contempt structure a host of social ills. Racism is best characterized as an especially pernicious form of inapt contempt, and Bell's account of contempt helps us better understand the moral badness of racism. It is argued that the best way of responding to race-based contempt is to mobilize a robust counter-contempt for racists.
The book concludes with a discussion of overcoming contempt through forgiveness. This account of forgiveness sheds light upon the broader issue of social reconciliation and what role reparations and memorials may play in giving persons reasons to overcome their contempt for institutions.
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王榮麟
May 26, 2016, 12:59:17 PM5/26/16
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我也來湊個熱鬧
我推薦底下一本書 它是本論文集 除了兩位編者 也包括Ivanhoe 陳來 李明輝 黃勇等將近廿人的論文
我也還沒讀過 推薦理由如下
大多數的論文都很短 約十頁左右 很快就可以讀完 讀完之後 應會對儒家是否適合以德行倫理學視之有所掌握
請大家參考
榮麟
Virtue Ethics and Confucianism Reprint Edition
by Stephen
Angle (Editor), Michael
Slote (Editor)
This
volume presents the fruits of an extended dialogue among American and Chinese philosophers concerning the relations between virtue ethics and the Confucian tradition. Based on recent advances in English-language scholarship on and translation of Confucian
philosophy, the book demonstrates that cross-tradition stimulus, challenge, and learning are now eminently possible. Anyone interested in the role of virtue in contemporary moral philosophy, in Chinese thought, or in the future possibilities for cross-tradition
philosophizing will find much to engage with in the twenty essays collected here.
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苑舉正
May 29, 2016, 6:16:19 AM5/29/16
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各位好，雖然我常缺席，但我喜歡這本書，因為以前讀道德心理學時，我覺得不接個人感覺。
德性倫理學是我的興趣，再加上儒家以及跨文化研究，讓我覺得比較熟悉。
祝安
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