{"product_id":"view-from-here-on-affirmation-attachment-and-the-limits-of-regret-9780190660758","title":"View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret","description":"\u003cp\u003eMust we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the standpoint from which we look back on our lives is shaped by our present attachments-to persons, to the projects that imbue our lives with meaning, and to life itself. Through a distinctive \"affirmation dynamic,\" these attachments commit us to affirming the necessary conditions of their objects. The result is that we are sometimes unable to regret events and circumstances that were originally unjustified or otherwise somehow objectionable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR. Jay Wallace\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include \u003cem\u003eResponsibility and the Moral Sentiments\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), \u003cem\u003eNormativity and the Will\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2006), and numerous papers on moral psychology, the theory of practical reason, the philosophy of responsibility, and other topics in philosophical ethics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318224556306,"sku":"9780190660758","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_48032247-6679-4827-a867-24c945d65772.jpg?v=1727551229","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/view-from-here-on-affirmation-attachment-and-the-limits-of-regret-9780190660758","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}