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A traditional association of judgment with "reason" has drawn upon and reinforced an opposition between reason and emotion. This, in turn, has led to a restricted view of the nature of moral judgment and of the subject as moral agent. The alternative, I suggest, is to abandon the traditional categories and to develop a new theory of judgment. I argue that the theory of judgment developed by Justus Buchler constitutes a robust alternative which does not prejudice the case against emotion. Drawing on this theory I then develop how to conceptualize the ways in which feeling and emotion can be (or be components of) moral judgments.

Introduction / James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani, and Kathleen Wallace -- Ancient Greek philosophia in India as a way of life / Christopher Moore -- Philosophy and the good life in the Zhuangzi / Pengbo Liu -- Esoteric Confucianism, moral dilemmas, and filial piety / William Sin -- Renaissance humanism and philosophy as a way of life / John Sellars -- Cartesian philosophy as spiritual practice / Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr. -- Leibniz's philosophy as a way of life? / Paul Lodge -- Philosophy as a feminist spirituality and critical practice for Mary Astell / Simone Webb -- Nietzsche and Unamuno on conatus and the agapeic way of life / Alberto Oya -- Ways of discourse and ways of life : Plato on the conflict between poetry and philosophy / I-Kai Jeng -- Stoicism and its telos : insights from Michel Foucault / Robin Weiss -- Philosophy as a way of life today : history, criticism, and apology / Marta Faustino -- Setting limits to practical reflection : against philosophy as a way of life / Vitor Sommavilla -- What it takes to live philosophically : or, how to progress in the art of living / Caleb Cohoe and Stephen R. Grimm -- Why practice philosophy as a way of life? / Javier Hidalgo -- On the benefits of philosophy as a way of life in a general introductory course / Jake Wright -- Philosophy as empirical exploration of living : an approach to courses in philosophy as a way of life / Steven Horst.

This collection of essays aims to mark a place for American philosophy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Taking their cue from the work of Peirce, James, Santayana, Dewey, Mead, Buchler, and others, the contributors assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. Within the broad background of the American tradition, the essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged. Some of the pieces argue from an historical dialogue with the tradition, some are more polemically involved with American philosophy's current status among the contemporary philosophical "schools," and still others seek to reveal the possibilities for the future of American philosophy. In thus addressing past, present, and future, the pieces, taken together, outline a trajectory for American philosophy that reinvents its importance from a new angle of vision