True to Our Feelings What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

Name: True to Our Feelings What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
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ISBN: 9780195368536

ISBN-10: 0195368533

ISBN-13: 9780195368536

Edition: 2008

Authors: Robert C. Solomon

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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. Solomon provides a guide to cutting-edge scientific research, as well as to what philosophers and psychologists have said on the subject, but he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.70" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective



Anger as a Way of Engaging the World



Why It Is Good to Be Afraid



Varieties of Fear and Anger: Emotions and Moods



Lessons of Love (and Plato's Symposium)



We Are Not Alone: Compassion and Sympathy



Extremes of Emotion: Grief, Laughter, and Happiness



Self-Reproach in Guilt, Shame, and Pride



Nasty Emotions: Envy, Spite, Jealousy, Resentment, and Vengeance



Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions



What an Emotion Theory Should Do



Myth 1: Emotions Are Ineffable



Myth 2: Emotions Are Feelings



Myth 3: The Hydraulic Model



Myth 4: Emotions Are "in" the Mind



Myth 5: Emotions Are Stupid (They Have No Intelligence)



Myth 6: Two Flavors of Emotion, Positive and Negative



Myth 7: Emotions Are Irrational



Myth 8: Emotions Happen to Us (They Are "Passions")



The Ethics of Emotion: A Quest for Emotional Integrity



Emotions as Evaluative Judgments



Emotions, Self, and Consciousness



Emotional Experience ("Feelings")



The Universality of Emotions: Evolution and the Human Condition



Emotions Across Cultures



Happiness, Spirituality, and Emotional Integrity


Annotated Bibliography


Index