{"product_id":"rational-sentimentalism-justin-darms-9780199256402","title":"Rational Sentimentalism","description":"\u003cem\u003eRational Sentimentalism\u003c\/em\u003e develops a novel theory of the sentimental values. These values, which include the funny, the disgusting, and the shameful, are profoundly important because they set standards for emotional responses that are part of our shared human nature. Yet moral philosophers have neglected them relative to their prominent role in human mental life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe theory is sentimentalist because it holds that these values are emotion-dependent-contrary to some prominent accounts of the funny and the disgusting. Its rational aspect arises from its insistence that the shameful (for example) is not whatever elicits shame but what makes shame fitting. Shameful traits provide reasons to be ashamed that do not depend on whether one is disposed to be ashamed of them. Furthermore, these reasons to be ashamed transmit to reasons to act as shame dictates: to conceal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSentimentalism requires a compatible theory of emotion and emotional fittingness. This book explicates a motivational theory of emotion that explains the peculiarities of emotional motivation as other theories cannot. It argues that a class of emotions are psychological kinds with a similar goal across cultures despite differences in their elicitors. It then develops an account of fittingness that helps to differentiate reasons of fit, which bear on the sentimental values, from other considerations for or against having an emotion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSignificant and controversial conclusions emerge from this theory of rational sentimentalism. Sentimental values conflict with one another, and with morality, but nevertheless provide practical reasons that apply to humans-if not to all rational agents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Justin D'Arms, Daniel Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199256403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199256402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.47w x 0.90d","brand":"Justin D'Arms","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44074720264447,"sku":"9780199256402","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d022bd7-662e-4ad5-9d3f-d9b267816fed.jpg?v=1685455383","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rational-sentimentalism-justin-darms-9780199256402","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}