Instead, one regards the individual as psychologically/morally abnormal or undeveloped and thereby a candidate, not for the full range of reactive attitudes, but primarily for those objective attitudes associated with treatment or simply instrumental control.
Whereas judgments are true or false and thereby can generate the need for justification, the desire for good will and those attitudes generated by it possess no truth value themselves, thereby eliminating any need for an external justification (Magill 1887: 21; Double 1996b: 848).
One standard cognitivist way of explaining the logical relations between attitudes is to offer an account of the contents of the states that are also good candidates for being the contents of the sentences that express those attitudes, for example by postulating propositions as the semantic values of sentences and the contents of beliefs.
The siblings were raised in California, where looks and weight counted for a lot, and those attitudes stayed with them.
This time their message was one of relief — and of hope and confidence, not just in Obama himself but in a United States that has reëmbraced, as the prize announcement put it, "that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman".
The Norwegian Nobel Committee nevertheless hailed "those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman" while praising "Obama's appeal that 'Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.'".
The people of New Orleans have been subjected to those attitudes for a long time ourselves, and we still are in too, too many ways, but we're still here.
But there is plenty in "Inventing America" to show that the country still contains deeper hungers and a respect for those cultural attitudes which address them.
It would be nearly impossible for those private attitudes and willful disregard of women's boundaries not to creep into their storytelling, hiring decisions and their news judgment.
