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    Reactive emotions are not superfluous add-ons to the judg... — Carmelics
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    Reactive emotions are not superfluous add-ons to the judgment involved in blame.

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    • 1.Reactive emotions change the meaning of the judgment.
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    • 2.Reactive emotions imbue the judgment with expressive significance characteristic of blame.
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    • 3.A mere judgment would otherwise lack this expressive significance.
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    • 1.R.M. Hare's prescriptivism holds that moral judgments carry their action-guiding force through universal prescriptive meaning, not affective states.
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    • 2.If the expressive significance of blame is fully captured by the illocutionary force of the judgment itself, reactive emotions add no constitutive content.
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    • 3.Therefore, emotions may be contingent psychological accompaniments to blame rather than components that alter its normative meaning.
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    • 1.Angela Smith and T.M. Scanlon's reasons-based accounts locate blame's essential nature in the revision of one's relationship-governing attitudes, not in felt emotional responses.
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    • 2.Psychologically detached agents who form the relevant revised attitudes toward a wrongdoer have thereby blamed, even absent reactive emotion.
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    • 3.If blame is complete without the emotion, the emotion cannot be constitutive of blame's expressive significance but is instead an optional affective expression of it.
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    Thus, in Hieronymi’s view, the normative force of blame must be grounded in the cognitive elements of blaming emotions, since it is these elements that are responsive to and reflect our concern for morality. But if the force of blame is grounded in the cognitive elements of the emotion, then why wouldn’t a judgment with the same content constitute an instance of blame? It seems that while emotions might be concomitant with blame, it is the cognitive element—one that can be present even if the bl
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