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Passionate Deliberation

Emotion, Temperance, and the Care Ethic in Clinical Moral Deliberation

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Mark F. Carr

    1. Faculty of Religion, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (PSCC, volume 8)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Broad Conception of Temperance

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 15-46

  4. The Narrow Conception of Temperance

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 47-59

  5. A Normative Account of Temperance

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 61-73

  6. Emotion, Desire, and Morality

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 75-102

  7. Temperance in Relation to Emotion

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 103-124

  8. Temperance as Equanimity in Clinical Medicine

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 125-140

  9. Emotion and the Care Ethic in Clinical Deliberation

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 141-156

  10. Conclusion: Care-Ful, Rational, Moral Deliberation

    • Mark F. Carr
    Pages 157-162

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 163-184
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About this book

Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I find contemporary notions oftemperance to be sorely lacking when compared and contrasted to these historical conceptions. Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts of temperance are particularly important to the normative statement of temperance I offer here. To fully understand temperance one must recognize its place among the moral virtues, in particular phronesis or practical judgment. Though I place temperance within practical judgment, this study stops short ofoffering a full account of virtue theory and how it mayor may not relate to other theories ofthe moral life. While contemporary views of temperance occasionally note its general relevance to the experience of emotion, I elaborate upon the work of temperance as an essential part of the effort to include emotion in the moral life. In present-day studies of the psychology of emotion, cognitive theories have reasserted the classical conception of emotion as consisting of both physiological and psychological elements ofhuman personhood. Temperance is the primary virtue in the moral agent's effort to appropriately include the entirety ofthe emotional experience in moral deliberation. I find it relevant to a moral response to both the physiological and psychological elements of emotion.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Religion, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, USA

    Mark F. Carr

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Passionate Deliberation

  • Book Subtitle: Emotion, Temperance, and the Care Ethic in Clinical Moral Deliberation

  • Authors: Mark F. Carr

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0591-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0143-7Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3892-8Published: 22 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0591-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0928-9518

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 184

  • Topics: Ontology, Ethics, Religious Studies, general, History of Medicine

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