Reason Over Passion: The Social Basis of Evaluation and Appraisal - Hardcover

Evan Simpson (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0889200734 ISBN 13: 9780889200739

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979

Synopsis

"Reason is not passion's slave." Rather, the author argues, reason appraises the cultural appropriateness of passion, thus directing our attitudinal behaviour. He refutes those theories of value which correspond philosophically to societies described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: societies of "honour without virtue, reason without wisdom, pleasure without happiness." His argument, which takes into account traditional philosophic positions, is divided into five parts: Attitudes, Evaluation, Characterization, Culture, Morality.

About this title

About the Author

Evan Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. He received the A.B. degree from Amherst College and the Ph.D. degree from Duke University. He has contributed articles on social philosophy, aesthetics, and human action to Ethics , Philosophy , the American Philosophical Quarterly , and other journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889200734
• ISBN 13: 9780889200739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174