Synopses & Reviews
This book is the result of a uniquely productive union of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and anthropology, and explores the complexity and importance of emotions. Michael Stocker places emotions at the very center of human identity, life and value. He shows how important are the social and emotional contexts of ethical dilemmas and inner conflicts, and he challenges philosophical theories that try to overgeneralize and over simplify by leaving out the particulars of each situation. This book will interest a broad range of readers across the disciplines of philosophy and psychology.
Synopsis:
This book is the result of a uniquely productive union of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and anthropology, and explores the complexity and importance of emotions. Michael Stocker places emotions at the very center of human identity, life and value. He shows how important are the social and emotional contexts of ethical dilemmas and inner conflicts, and he challenges philosophical theories that try to overgeneralize and over simplify by leaving out the particulars of each situation. This book will interest a broad range of readers across the disciplines of philosophy and psychology.
Synopsis:
This book offers a realistic account of emotions and an in-depth analysis of how psychological factors affect judgments of all kind.
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-339) and indexes.
Table of Contents
PART I. PRELIMINARY MATERIAL: 1. The irreducibility of affectivity; 2. How emotions reveal value; PART II. EMOTIONS AND VALUE: SOME EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS: 3. Emotional problems suggest epistemological problems (with Elizabeth Hegeman); 4. Do these connections show emotions important for value, or do they show something else?; 5. Emotions are important for evaluation and value; 6. Emotions as constituents and as added perfections; 7. How emotions help with evaluative knowledge (with Elizabeth Hegeman); PART III. CASE STUDIES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND OTHER COMPLEXITIES OF EMOTIONS: 8. The interdependence of emotions and psychology (with Elizabeth Hegeman); 9. Affectivity and self-concern; 10. The complex evaluative world of Aristotle's Angry Man (with Elizabeth Hegeman); 11. Some final conclusions.
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