Lenman, J.W. (2018) The primacy of the passions. In: Berqvist, A. and Cowans, R., (eds.) Evaluative Perception. Mind Association Occasional Series . Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198786054
Abstract
Value is not perceived as the empirical world is perceived but is constituted by the order and structure reflection and deliberation impose upon desires - the passions in our souls - that furnish the basic currency of evaluative and normative thought both as input (“intuition”) and output (considered normative judgements). Perception, like our other cognitive resources, is nonetheless shaped and informed by the passions in our soul as they in turn shape and inform it. Evaluative reason and justification is driven by our passions and ultimately grounded in them. While locally we generally desire things because they are valuable, globally, in the last analysis, they are valuable because we (at our best) desire them. Here the role of desire is grounding and global but it is still not Archimedean: it is not a matter of raw, brute desire but of evaluation informed by all the substantive ideals from which the whole complex web of our evaluative and normative thought itself is woven.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Oxford University Press 2017. This is an author produced version of a chapter subsequently published in Bergqvist and Cowan, eds. (2018) Evaluative Perception. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Value; Desire; Reason; Perception; Moral epistemology |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2018 10:08 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2020 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786054.003.0015 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Series Name: | Mind Association Occasional Series |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/oso/9780198786054.003.0015 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126960 |