True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling UsOUP USA, 2007 - 286 páginas We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us—all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions—why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others—philosophers and psychologists—have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense—rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion—they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well. Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more "true to our feelings" and cultivate emotional integrity. The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way. |
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... virtues , faith , hope , and charity . But looking at the emotions through the lens of ethics does not mean damning and praising so much as it involves appreciating the insights , values , and subtle nuances of emotion and their many ...
... virtues , faith , hope , and charity . But looking at the emotions through the lens of ethics does not mean damning and praising so much as it involves appreciating the insights , values , and subtle nuances of emotion and their many ...
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... virtues . It was equally clear to the Stoics , who followed Aristotle , that the passions were significant but quite dangerous . According to the Stoics , emotions distort our reason , corrupt our virtue , and make us unhappy ...
... virtues . It was equally clear to the Stoics , who followed Aristotle , that the passions were significant but quite dangerous . According to the Stoics , emotions distort our reason , corrupt our virtue , and make us unhappy ...
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... virtue ( not unlike Plato and Aristotle in the West ) , in which right feeling played a central part . Compassion ... virtues and vices that make us good or not so good people . More recently , there has grown a rich literature in ...
... virtue ( not unlike Plato and Aristotle in the West ) , in which right feeling played a central part . Compassion ... virtues and vices that make us good or not so good people . More recently , there has grown a rich literature in ...
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Contenido
Anger as a Way of Engaging the World | 13 |
Why It Is Good to Be Afraid | 29 |
Varieties of Fear and Anger Emotions and Moods | 39 |
Lessons of Love and Platos Symposium | 51 |
We Are Not Alone Compassion and Sympathy | 63 |
Extremes of Emotion Grief Laughter and Happiness | 72 |
SelfReproach in Guilt Shame and Pride | 90 |
Nasty Emotions Envy Spite Jealousy Resentment and Vengeance | 101 |
MYTH FIVE Emotions Are Stupid They Have No Intelligence | 159 |
MYTH SIX Two Flavors of Emotion Positive and Negative | 170 |
MYTH SEVEN Emotions Are Irrational | 180 |
MYTH EIGHT Emotions Happen to Us They Are Passions | 190 |
The Ethics of Emotion A Quest for Emotional Integrity | 201 |
Emotions as Evaluative Judgments | 203 |
Emotions Self and Consciousness | 218 |
Emotional Experience Feelings | 232 |
Toward a General Theory Myths about Emotions | 115 |
What an Emotion Theory Should Do | 117 |
MYTH ONE Emotions Are Ineffable | 127 |
MYTH TWO Emotions Are Feelings | 137 |
MYTH THREE The Hydraulic Model | 142 |
MYTH FOUR Emotions Are in the Mind | 150 |
The Universality of Emotions Evolution and the Human Condition | 245 |
Emotions Across Cultures | 252 |
Happiness Spirituality and Emotional Integrity | 263 |
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True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us Robert C. Solomon Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us Robert C. Solomon Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us Robert C. Solomon Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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