Philosophical work in the ethics of thought focuses heavily on the ethics of belief, with, in recent years, a particular emphasis on the ways in which we might wrong other people either through our beliefs about them, or our failure to believe what they tell us. Yet in our own lives we often want not merely to be believed, but rather to be understood by others. What does it take to understand another person? In this paper, I provide an account of interpersonal understanding that speaks to this widespread human desire to be understood by others. On the view I defend, to be understood by another person is for them to see our motivating reasons as justifying reasons, whether or not they actually take our reasons to have that normative force. I then provide an explanation of why such understanding is valuable in our lives, which emphasizes how being understood by another person is a way of being more fully with them.

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 被理解


思想伦理学的哲学工作主要关注信仰伦理学，近年来，特别强调我们可能通过对他人的信念或不相信他们告诉我们的内容而错误地对待他人。 。然而，在我们自己的生活中，我们常常不仅希望被别人相信，而且希望被别人理解。怎样才能理解另一个人？在本文中，我对人际理解进行了阐述，说明了人类普遍渴望被他人理解的愿望。根据我捍卫的观点，被另一个人理解就是让他们将我们的动机理由视为正当理由，无论他们是否真的认为我们的理由具有规范性力量。然后，我解释了为什么这种理解在我们的生活中很有价值，强调被他人理解是如何更充分地与他们相处的一种方式。