Emotional Reason

Download or read book Emotional Reason written by Bennett W. Helm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm rejects the standard philosophical answers to these questions, which presuppose a sharp distinction between cognition and impulse, and develops a detailed alternative theory both of emotions, desires, and evaluative judgments and of their rational interconnections. The result is an innovative theory of practical rationality and how we can control not only what we do but also what we value and who we are as persons.