Sharon R. Krause
Civil Passions
Civil Passions is about how we deliberate about justice, and specifically about the role the passions play in this process. The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision-making. But they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. This is the central puzzle of the book: How can we be passionate and impartial at the same time?
Drawing on resources ranging from 18-century theories of moral sentiment to recent findings in neuroscience, Civil Passions shows how passions, emotions, and desires can generate an impartial standpoint on questions of justice and other important political issues.
This new account of affective but impartial judgment calls for a politics of liberal rights and democratic contestation. It requires us to reconceive the meaning of public reason, the nature of sound deliberation, and the authority of law. It also demands a fundamental rethinking of who we are, both as citizens and as human beings.
Editor: Erind Pajo
Civil Passions
Sharon R. Krause Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation Princeton University Press 274 pages, 6 x 9 inches ISBN 978 0691137254
Available here →June 19, 2009
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Sharon R. Krause
Sharon Krause is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where she teaches courses in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. In addition to Civil Passions, she is the author of Liberalism with Honor (Harvard, 2002) and numerous articles on topics in classical and contemporary liberalism. She is currently at work on a book about freedom.
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Passions and desires are what generate an impartial standpoint on justice, and passionless reason cannot decide at all.
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