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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Nature of Emotions | |
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| The Complexity of Emotions | |
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| Reasons for the complexity of emotions | |
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| Explaining emotions | |
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| Summary | |
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| What Is an Emotion? | |
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| The typical cause of emotion | |
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| The typical emotional concern | |
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| The typical emotional object | |
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| Cause, concern and object | |
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| Typical characteristics | |
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| Difficulties and objections | |
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| Summary | |
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| Basic Components | |
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| Intentionality and feeling | |
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| The cognitive component | |
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| The evaluative component | |
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| The motivational component | |
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| The feeling component | |
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| Comparing the different components | |
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| Difficulties and objections | |
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| Some conceptual aspects | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Affective Realm | |
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| Typical cases of affective phenomena | |
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| Emotions and sentiments | |
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| Moods and affective traits | |
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| Affective disorders | |
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| Classifying the emotions | |
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| Positive and negative emotions | |
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| Basic and nonbasic emotions | |
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| Summary | |
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| When Feelings Overflow--Emotional Intensity | |
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| The complexity of emotional intensity | |
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| Intensity variables | |
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| Personal makeup | |
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| Summary | |
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| Rationality and Functionality | |
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| The rationality of emotions | |
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| The functionality of emotions | |
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| Emotional intelligence | |
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| Emotions and communication | |
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| Summary | |
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| Emotions and Imagination | |
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| The role of imagination in emotions | |
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| Types of imagination | |
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| Counterfactual imagination | |
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| Positive illusions | |
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| Emotions in the future world | |
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| Emotions and luck | |
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| Summary | |
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| Everything Is Not under Control--Regulating the Emotions | |
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| Possible divisions of regulating means | |
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| The nature of regulating means | |
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| Combining all means | |
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| Summary | |
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| Emotions and Morality | |
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| Emotions and moral responsibility | |
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| Emotional and moral evaluations | |
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| Emotional partiality and morality | |
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| Further moral advantage of emotions | |
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| Integrating emotions into moral decisions | |
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| Emotions and tolerance | |
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| Summary | |
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| Analyzing Emotions | |
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| Why Do We Feel Bad When You Feel Good?--Envy and Jealousy | |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Borderline cases | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Intensity variables | |
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| Envy and social inequality | |
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| Moral value | |
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| Why Do We Feel Bad When You Feel Bad?--Pity, Compassion, and Mercy | |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Intensity variables | |
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| Moral value | |
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| Why Do We Feel Good No Matter What You Feel?--Happy-For and Pleasure-in-Others'-Misfortune | |
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| Happy-for | |
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| Pleasure-in others'-misfortune | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Intensity variables | |
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| Moral value | |
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| When You Are Bad, I Am Mad--Anger, Hate, Disgust, and Contempt | |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Intensity variables | |
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| Moral value | |
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| The Sweetest Emotions--Romantic Love and Sexual Desire | |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Intensity variables | |
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| Hurting the one you love | |
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| Moral value | |
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| Caring about Oneself--Happiness and Sadness | |
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| Happiness | |
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| Sadness | |
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| Grief | |
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| Loneliness | |
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| Moral value | |
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| Caring about Our Future--Hope and Fear | |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Intensity variables | |
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| Moral value | |
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| Taking Account of Our Specific Deeds--Pride, Regret, Guilt, and Embarrassment | |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Moral value | |
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| Caring about the Self--Pridefulness and Shame | |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Relationships with other emotions | |
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| Moral value | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |