Radical Evaluative Ignorance
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If you cannot figure out whether Kandinsky’s Squares with Concentric Circles is beautiful or ugly, or if you don’t know whether euthanasia could ever be morally permissible, then your ignorance is evaluative rather than factual. Evaluative ignorance is either internal, external, or radical. Internal evaluative ignorance arises if you are ignorant of your own evaluative atti tudes, such as your preferences or desires. It is widely agreed that we can be ignorant of our future and past evaluative attitudes, but not everyone believes we can be ignorant of our present ones.1 I shall not discuss internal evaluative ignorance here.
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2016
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2016
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978-1-315-67124-6