Worse, I can entertain different attitudes at the same time to the same object, depending on the aspect under which I consider it.
In any case where only some reasonable men entertain the attitudes, it would be impossible to justify the associated desert claims.
On the other hand, if we required merely that some reasonable men entertain the attitudes in question, then it would become far too easy to justify dubious desert claims.
(5p35c) And if the mark of a personal being is that it is one towards which we can entertain personal attitudes, then we should note too that Spinoza recommends amor intellectualist dei (the intellectual love of God) as the supreme good for man.
When I first wrote Obama on the couch I opined that President Obama would drive the GOP crazy, mostly because of his ability to tolerate cognitive dissonance -- a capacity to entertain differing attitudes and arguments about a single policy decision.
Perhaps surprisingly, we find that CNN viewers entertain an attitude towards illegal immigration which is very similar to the one displayed by Fox News viewers.
They liked him for his cheerfulness and desire to entertain, an attitude not shared by all of his team-mates.
Feinberg starts by noting that 'reasonable men naturally entertain certain responsive attitudes toward various actions, qualities, and achievements.' Those who engage in the actions or manifest the qualities thereby deserve to be the subjects of the responsive attitudes.
If understood in the suggested way, this account would rely on some problematic assumptions about the responsive attitudes that 'reasonable men naturally entertain.' We might well doubt whether all such men invariably entertain those attitudes in cases where the recipients deserve to be their subject.
Systematicity: According to RTM, there are systematic relations between which propositional attitudes a thinker can entertain.
Early Christianity entertained an ambivalent attitude to the classicizingly 'correct' language inculcated by the pagan educational system, which finally collapsed in the wake of the Germanic invasions.
