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(Ebook) The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret by R. Jay Wallace ISBN 9780199941353, 0199941351

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Authors:R. Jay Wallace
Pages:288 pages.
Year:2013
Editon:1
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Language:english
File Size:1.98 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780199941353, 0199941351
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(Ebook) The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret by R. Jay Wallace ISBN 9780199941353, 0199941351

Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the standpoint from which we look back on our lives is shaped by our present attachments-to persons, to the projects that imbue our lives with meaning, and to life itself. Through a distinctive "affirmation dynamic", these attachments commit us to affirming the necessary conditions of their objects. The result is that we are sometimes unable to regret events and circumstances that were originally unjustified or otherwise somehow objectionable.Wallace traces these themes through a range of examples. A teenage girl makes an ill-advised decision to conceive a child - but her love for the child once it has been born makes it impossible for her to regret that earlier decision. The painter Paul Gauguin abandons his family to pursue his true artistic calling (and eventual life project) in Tahiti--which means he cannot truly regret his abdication of familial responsibility. The View from Here offers new interpretations of these classic cases, challenging their treatment by Bernard Williams and others. Another example is the "bourgeois predicament": we are committed to affirming the regrettable social inequalities that make possible the expensive activities that give our lives meaning. Generalizing from such situations, Wallace defends the view that our attachments inevitably commit us to affirming historical conditions that we cannot regard as worthy of being affirmed--a modest form of nihilism.
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