True to our feelings : what our emotions are really telling us / Robert C. Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Robert C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 286 pages)

Other Title:

What our emotions are really telling us

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. -- BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

pt. 1. Emotional strategies : an existentialist perspective

1. Anger as a way of engaging the world

2. Why it is good to be afraid

3. Varieties of fear and anger : emotions and moods

4. Lessons of love (and Plato's Symposium)

5. We are not alone : compassion and sympathy

6. Extremes of emotion : grief, laughter, and happiness

7. Self-reproach in guilt, shame, and pride

8. Nasty emotions : envy, spite, jealousy, resentment, and vengeance

pt. 2. Toward a general theory : myths about emotions

What an emotion theory should do

10. Myth 1 : Emotions are ineffable

11. Myth 2 : Emotions are feelings

12. Myth 3 : The hydraulic model

13. Myth 4 : Emotions are "in" the mind

14. Myth 5 : Emotions are stupid (They have no intelligence)

15. Myth 6 : Two flavors of emotion, positive and negative

16. Myth 7 : Emotions are irrational

17. Myth 8 : Emotions happen to us (They are "passions")

pt. 3. The ethics of emotion : a quest for emotional integrity

18. Emotions as evaluative judgments

19. Emotions, self, and consciousness

20. Emotional experience ("Feelings")

21. The universality of emotions : evolution and the human condition

22. Emotions across cultures

23. Happiness, spirituality, and emotional integrity

Annotated bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-045132-7

0-19-985203-0

1-281-93096-2

9786611930967

0-19-972560-8

OCLC:

476246465