Abstract
AbstractThis chapter considers six attempts to solve the puzzle of accommodation but argues that all of them fail. The most challenging is the Hardline Response, according to which accommodation to loss and injustice is unreasonable. The chapter contends that the Hardline Response fails to do justice to the moral psychology of the emotions. The other five responses seek to understand accommodation as rational by conceiving of the reasons for emotion as time-sensitive. These responses include the appeal to the waning shock over loss or injustice, the analogy between accommodation and partiality, the view that grief and anger are processes which unfold over time, and the view that they constitute psychological work which we complete over time. These attempts fail because they leave us with double vision: We cannot, at once, apprehend the objects of our emotions and the psychological facts about the emotions that would account for their time-sensitivity.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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