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The Reflective Life - Living Wisely With Our Limits (Paperback)
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The Reflective Life - Living Wisely With Our Limits (Paperback)
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What can we do to live life wisely? You might think that the answer
would be to think and reflect more. But this is not Valerie
Tiberius's answer. On her view, when we really take account of what
we are like - when we recognize our psychological limits - we will
see that too much thinking and reflecting is bad for us. Instead,
we need to think and reflect better. This means that we need to
develop wisdom: we need to care about things that will sustain us
and give us good experiences, we need to have perspective on our
successes and failures, and we need to be moderately self-aware and
cautiously optimistic about human nature. Further, we need to know
when to think about our values, character, and choices, and when
not to. A crucial part of wisdom, Tiberius maintains, is knowing
when to stop reflecting and get lost in the experience.
The Reflective Life also considers the issue of how to philosophize
about how to live. A recent trend in moral philosophy has been
toward what is sometimes called 'empirically informed ethics'. This
methodology has not yet caught on in normative ethics, primarily
because we cannot conclude anything about what ought to be the case
from the facts about what is. Tiberius agrees that this leap should
be avoided, but argues that empirical psychology can inform our
philosophical theories in interesting ways.
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