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