Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
argumentation, happiness, objectivity, virtue
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
At first glance, happiness and objectivity seem to have little in common. I claim, however, that subjective and eudaimonic happiness promotes arguer objectivity. To support my claim, I focus on connections between happiness, social intelligence, and intellectual virtue. After addressing objections concerning unhappy objective and happy unobjective arguers, I conclude that communities should value happiness in argumentative contexts and use happiness as an indicator of their capacity for objective argumentation.
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Sharon Bailin, Commentary on: Moira Howes' "Does happiness increase the objectivity of arguers?"
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Sharon Bailin, Commentary on: Moira Howes' "Does happiness increase the objectivity of arguers?" (May 2013)
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Does happiness increase the objectivity of arguers?
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At first glance, happiness and objectivity seem to have little in common. I claim, however, that subjective and eudaimonic happiness promotes arguer objectivity. To support my claim, I focus on connections between happiness, social intelligence, and intellectual virtue. After addressing objections concerning unhappy objective and happy unobjective arguers, I conclude that communities should value happiness in argumentative contexts and use happiness as an indicator of their capacity for objective argumentation.
