Rational Sentimentalism - Daniel Jacobson

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Résumé :
This book presents an original theory of the sentimental values. These values, such as the funny, the disgusting, and the shameful, are deeply important in setting standards for emotional responses that are part of our shared human nature, yet moral philosophers have neglected them relative to their key role in human mental life.
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Biographie:
Justin D'Arms, Daniel Jacobson

Justin D'Arms is Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University, where he has taught since receiving his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1995. He has served as a Visiting Lecturer at Seoul National University and at the Swiss Center for the Affective Sciences, and has held a Laurence Rockefeller Fellowship at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.

Daniel Jacobson is Bruce D. Benson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization. He has published on topics in ethics, aesthetics, moral psychology, freedom of speech, and the moral and political philosophy of John Stuart Mill. He has held grants and fellowships from the NEH, ACLS, Princeton University Center for Human Values, and the John Templeton Foundation

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