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The retreat of reason, a dilemma in the philosophy of life, Ingmar Persson

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [479]-488) and index

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The retreat of reason

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Ingmar Persson

a dilemma in the philosophy of life

Part I: The, nature of para-cognitive attitudes -- Pain as a sensory quality -- Pleasure as a sensory quality -- Beyond hedonism -- An analysis of desire -- The, concept of emotion -- A typology of emotion -- Part II: Reason and value -- Introduction: subjectivism and objectivism -- The, structure of reasons : internalism -- An objective requirement? -- The, desire relativity of value -- The, rationality of para-cognitive attitudes -- Weakness of will -- Representational mechanisms -- Part III: Rationality and temporal neutrality -- The, notion of a temporal bias -- The, irrationality of the bias towards the near -- The, irrationality of the bias towards the future -- The, dilemma as regards temporal neutrality -- Part V: Rationality and personal neutrality -- Introduction: the bias towards oneself -- Self and body -- Psychological theories of our identity -- Somatist theories of our identity -- The, identity of material bodies -- The, rational insignificance of identity and continuity -- Self-concern and self-approval -- Concern for and approval of others -- Prudence : maximization or idealism? -- The, requirement of personal neutrality -- Moral individualism : autonomy and agreement -- The, dilemma as regards personal neutrality --Part V: Rationality and responsibility -- Predictability and the experience of freedom -- Compatibilist freedom of action -- Compatibilist freedom of will -- Responsibility and desert -- The, deontological element of responsibility -- The, emotive genesis of desert -- The, dilemma as regards responsibility -- Conclusion: the conflict between rationalism and satisfactionalism