Background
Oakley, Justin Gerard was born on May 3, 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of Barry Kingham and Carmel Catherine (Hart) Oakley.
(This book argues that our emotions are directly morally s...)
This book argues that our emotions are directly morally significant. We often praise others for their emotional capacities, yet we possess deeply-held assumptions about the antipathy of emotions to reason and responsibility. Justin Oakley demonstrates that with a proper understanding of what emotions are we can see their fundamental role in our moral lives. He shows how a variety of important moral assessments may justifiably made of us because of our emotions, and he also reveals the extent to which we are responsible for those emotions. Justin Oakley takes as his starting point Aristotle's claim that moral goodness requires not only acting well, but also having the right emotions towards the appropriate object to the right degree. He shows the inadequacy of modern ethical theories' attempts to accommodate the emotions, and in doing so attacks philosophical and psychological theories which would have us believe that Aristotle was exhorting us merely to have the right beliefs or desires, or to encourage in ourselves certain bodily changes.
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Oakley, Justin Gerard was born on May 3, 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of Barry Kingham and Carmel Catherine (Hart) Oakley.
Bachelor, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, 1988.
Senior tutor, School Social Sciences LaTrobe U., 1989; tutor bioethics, Monash U., Melbourne, 1990; lecturer, Monash U., Melbourne, since 1991; senior lecturer, Monash U., Melbourne, since 1998; deputy director Center for Human Bioethics, Monash U., Melbourne, since 1997. Visiting fellow Oxford Institute for Ethics and Comm. in Health Care Practice, Oxford (England) University, 19.
(This book argues that our emotions are directly morally s...)
Member Australian Bioethics Association, Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, Australasian Society for History of Philosophy.
Married Kathryn Bailey. 1 child, Jordan Bailey Oakley.