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Alessandra Tanesini, "The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books in Philosophy

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Are Vices Heterogeneous?

Aristotle said that good men have but one way, he said in the first os tevices are terogeneous. I tried to find a psychologic framework that can acknowledge the heterogeneity of vices,. But at the same time, i find a way of making the picture less massy by saying they all are built of the same component. And for me, those components are attitudes. So something like really liking chocolate is an attitude. Toward chocolate is, is a summary of a evaluation of chocolate as something positive. Attitudes are very different from beliefs and desires. It would make a lot of sense if you didn't have to out every time you met an object how you feel

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