Centre for philosophy, ethics and religion, Sekyra Fondation and Institue of Philosophy cordially invite you to a lecture
Attitudes of the Will and Attitudes of the Heart
delivered by
prof. Stephen Darwall
Yale
When? Thursday 16.3. 2022, starting at 17:00
Where? Room 300, Faculty of Arts main building, Jana Palacha 2, Third floor.
Abstract:
The reactive attitudes through which we hold people accountable (resentment, guilt, and blame) have been much studied. But P. F. Strawson gave other examples – love, gratitude, and „hurt feelings.“ I present an analysis of these attitudes as „second-personal attitudes of the heart.“ Whereas the deontic moral attitudes are attitudes of the will – expressing demands from one will to another – second-personal attitudes of the heart open one’s heart to another’s in the hope that theirs will be open to one’s heart in return. In the process we arrive at a perfectly general account of attitudes as „reciprocating attitudes.“