Aiming at the good |
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Authors: | Amir Saemi |
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Affiliation: | School of Analytic Philosophy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Niavaran, P.O. Box 19395-5746, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: | This paper shows how we can plausibly extend the guise of the good thesis in a way that avoids intellectualist challenge, allows animals to be included, and is consistent with the possibility of performing action under the cognition of their badness. The paper also presents some independent arguments for the plausibility of this interpretation of the thesis. To this aim, a teleological conception of practical attitudes as well as a cognitivist account of arational desires is offered. |
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Keywords: | the guise of the good desire intention practical attitudes formal object good cognitivism representation function teleological |
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