Tag: Judging with Your Gut
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How NOT To Do Law, Philosophy, and Neuroscience
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I’ve just returned from the Understanding Humans through Neuroscience conference at the American Enterprise Institute , where I heard papers by Roger Scruton, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Stephen Morse. What struck me was how mired the…
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More on Contempt
A friend suggests that my recent arguments against the moral status of contempt ignored an important role it plays in policing our moral community. The concern is that if we cannot feel (and expect others…
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Advice
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Ever since the markets became front page news, I’ve been caught in some sort of economics blog vortex. At this point, most of my reading is no longer directed towards macro-economic issues and institutional critique,…
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Should there be a place for disdain in our emotional lives?
[caption id="attachment_3357" align="alignright" width="484"] “Hey, look at those assholes over there. Ordinary fuckin’ people. I hate ’em.” -Repo Man[/caption] In this post, I want to argue that disdain, contempt, and scorn have no moral place…
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Appreciative Thinking
I’ve been having a debate on a friend’s Facebook page about the value of Martha Nussbaum’s work (I’m a fan) and serendipitously I found this post on “appreciative thinking” via Tyler Cowen . It’s a…
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Sex and Judgment
So in the last post, I showed how the initial versions of Christian judgment were remarkably modest and fallibilist with regard to other people. This makes a certain amount of sense, since Augustine was attached…
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After Phronesis
In the Confessions , Augustine argues that the capacity to judge is a capacity only available to those who have come to know God: “… we become new men in the image of our Creator.…