[book talk #1] The function of regret. R. Jay Wallace

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The Book: The View From Here (2013), Oxford University Press
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-view-from-here-9780199941353?cc=us&lang=en&
Professor Wallace's website: https://www.rjaywallace.net/
Bernard William's "Moral Luck": https://iep.utm.edu/moralluc/#H1

The opening quote:
"The perspective of deliberative choice on one's life is constitutively from here. Correspondingly the perspective of later assessment with greater knowledge is necessarily from there, and not only can I not guarantee how factually it will then be, but i cannot ultimately guarantee from what standpoint of assessment my major and most fundamental regrets will be."
-Bernard Williams, "Moral Luck" (1981)

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