Failing Desire
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Failing Desire
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Author : Karmen MacKendrick
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2017-12-04
Failing Desire written by Karmen MacKendrick and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-04 with Religion categories.
Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of these impossibilities, those connected to humiliation. These include the failure of autonomy in submission, of inward privacy in confession, of visual modesty in exhibition, and of dignity in playing various roles. Historically, those who find pleasure in these failures range from ancient Cynics through early Christian monks to those now drawn by queer or perverse eroticism. As Judith Halberstam pointed out in The Queer Art of Failure, failure can actually be a mode of resistance to demands for what a culture defines as success. Karmen MacKendrick draws on this interest in queer refusals. To value, desire, or seek humiliation undercuts any striving for success, but it draws our attention particularly to the failures of knowledge as a form of power, whether that knowledge is of one body or of a population. How can we understand will that seeks not to govern itself, psychology that constructs inwardness by telling all, blushing shame that delights in exposure, or dignity that refuses its lofty position? Failing Desire suggests that the power of these desires and pleasures comes out of the very realization that this question can never quite be answered.
The Epistemology Of Desire And The Problem Of Nihilism
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Author : Allan Hazlett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-25
The Epistemology Of Desire And The Problem Of Nihilism written by Allan Hazlett and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-25 with Philosophy categories.
Most people have wondered whether anything really matters, some have temporarily thought that nothing really matters, and some philosophers have defended the view that nothing really matters. However, if someone thinks that nothing matters--if they are a "nihilist about value"--then it seems that it is irrational for them to care about anything. It seems that nihilism about value mandates total indifference. This is the "problem of nihilism" Allan Hazlett addresses in The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism. Hazlett argues that the problem of nihilism arises because desire--and thus caring--is a species of evaluation that admits of irrationality. This contradicts the influential Humean view that desire does not admit of irrationality, which has a ready solution to the problem of nihilism: since desire does not admit of irrationality, it cannot be irrational to care about something that you believe does not matter. However, following G.E. Anscombe, Hazlett argues that desire has the same relationship to goodness as belief has to truth: just as truth is the accuracy condition for belief, goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This reveals desire as an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry, in the same way that belief is an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry. Desires can amount to knowledge (in the same way that beliefs can amount to knowledge) and, crucially for the problem of nihilism, desire admits of irrationality (in the same way that belief admits of irrationality). Nevertheless, although it is obviously irrational to believe something that you believe is not true, Hazlett argues that it is not irrational to desire something you believe is not good, despite the fact that goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This provides a solution to the problem of nihilism, and shows that nihilism about value can coherently be combined with the anti-Humean view that desire is a species of evaluation.
Desire As Belief
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Author : Alex Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Desire As Belief written by Alex Gregory and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
What is it to want something? Or, as philosophers might ask, what is a desire? The idea that we explain and evaluate actions with essential reference to what people want is compelling, as it speaks to common-sense ideas that our wants lie at the heart of our decision-making. Yet our wants seem to have a competitor: our beliefs about what we ought to do. Such normative beliefs alone may often suffice to explain our actions. To try and resolve this tension, this book defends "desire as belief", the view that desires are just a special subset of our normative beliefs. This view entitles us to accept orthodox models of human motivation and rationality that explain those things with reference to desire, while also making room for our normative beliefs to play a role in those domains. This view also tells us to diverge from the orthodox view on which desires themselves can never be right or wrong. Rather, according to desire-as-belief, our desires can themselves be assessed for their accuracy, and they are wrong when they misrepresent normative features of the world. Hume says that it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of your finger, but he is wrong: it is foolish to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of your finger, precisely because this preference misrepresents the relative worth of these things. This book mounts an engaging and comprehensive defence of these ideas.
Moral Failure
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Author : Lisa Tessman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-03
Moral Failure written by Lisa Tessman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-03 with Philosophy categories.
Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that "ought implies can." In some cases, it is because two non-negotiable requirements conflict that one of them becomes impossible to satisfy, and yet remains binding. In other cases, performing a particular action may be non-negotiably required -- even if it is impossible -- because not performing the action is unthinkable. After offering both conceptual and empirical explanations of the experience of impossible moral requirements and the ensuing failures to fulfill them, Tessman considers what to make of such experience, and in particular, what role such experience has in the construction of value and of moral authority. According to the constructivist account that the book proposes, some moral requirements can be authoritative even when they are impossible to fulfill. Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theory, from theories of supererogation to debates about moral demandingness and to feminist care ethics.
A Fast Forward Journey After The System Failure
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Author : Melissa Wood
language : en
Publisher: Red Quill Press
Release Date : 2004-12-02
A Fast Forward Journey After The System Failure written by Melissa Wood and has been published by Red Quill Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-02 with Fiction categories.
Hehe, you are more beautiful in person than in the videos and photos!" Lin Feng praised the innocent girl in front of him with a smile, but in his heart he was thinking about which hotel to take her to book a room in the evening. "Haha, you're not bad either, quite handsome!" The girl greeted politely, not realizing that she was walking into a tiger's mouth.
The Problem Of Hell
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Author : Joel Buenting
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2010
The Problem Of Hell written by Joel Buenting and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religion categories.
How can a perfectly good God justifiably damn anyone to hell? This is one version of the problem of hell. The problem of hell has become one of the most widely discussed topics in contemporary philosophy of religion. This anthology brings together contributions by contemporary philosophers whose work shapes the current debate.
Christian August Crusius 1715 1775
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Author : Frank Grunert
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-07-05
Christian August Crusius 1715 1775 written by Frank Grunert and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Philosophy categories.
On the basis of the Thomist and Pietist tradition, Christian August Crusius (1715–1775) elaborated a philosophically challenging and influential alternative to the philosophy of Christian Wolff. For the first time, this edited collection offers a rigorous overview of the work of the Leipzig-based philosopher and theologian.
Failed Relations
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Author : REBEKAH. JOHNSTON
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-06-30
Failed Relations written by REBEKAH. JOHNSTON and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
Failed Relations examines the undertheorized ways in which oppressive social circumstances are constitutively relevant to autonomy.
The Problem Of Hell
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Author : Jonathan L. Kvanvig
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-09-30
The Problem Of Hell written by Jonathan L. Kvanvig and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
The doctrine of hell presents the most intractable version of the problem of evil, for though it might be argued that ordinary pain and evil can somehow be compensated for by the course of future experience, the pain and suffering of hell leads nowhere. This work develops an understanding of hell that is common to a broad variety of religious perspectives, and argues that the usual understandings of hell are incapable of solving the problem of hell. Kvanvig first argues that the traditional understanding of hell found in Christianity suffers from moral and epistemological inadequacies. Historically, these shortcomings lead to alternatives to the traditional doctrine of hell, such as universalism, annihilationism, or the second chance doctrine. Kvanvig shows, however, that the typical alternatives to the traditional understanding are inadequate as well. He argues that both the traditional understanding and the typical alternatives fail to solve the problem of hell because they share the common flaw of being constructed on a retributive model of hell. Kvanvig then develops a philosophical account of hell which does not depend on a retributive model and argues that it is adequate on both philosophical and theological grounds.
Herald Of Truth
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1836
Herald Of Truth written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1836 with Universalism categories.