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The View from Here - On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret (Paperback)
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The View from Here - On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret (Paperback)
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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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