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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preliminary Material | |
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| The Irreducibility of Affectivity | |
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| Emotions and affectivity | |
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| The content account | |
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| Irreducibility to desire | |
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| Irreducibility to reason | |
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| Irreducibility via more complex accounts | |
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| Feelings are rarely merely feelings | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| How Emotions Reveal Value | |
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| A start on some issues | |
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| Problematic issues about the values emotions reveal | |
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| Whether all emotions contain or reveal value, with special focus on interest and intellectual emotions | |
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| Some relations between my claim and emotivism and naturalism | |
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| Perhaps evaluatively revealing emotions only reveal values | |
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| The unsavory connection between the content claim and the information claim | |
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| Emotions and Value: Some Epistemological and Constitutive Relations | |
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| Emotional Problems Suggest Epistemological Problems | |
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| False truisms about reason and emotions | |
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| Psychoanalytic connections | |
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| Unhealthy philosophical accounts of emotions | |
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| Ordinary ways good emotions are important for good evaluations | |
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| Do These Connections Show Emotions Important for Value, or do They Show Something Else? | |
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| Do emotional defects explain evaluative defects, or do they share a common cause? | |
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| Is there a real or healthy distinction between emotions and their underlying patterns? | |
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| Perhaps emotions are important, not for evaluations, but only for people as evaluators | |
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| Is this just the information claim? | |
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| Emotions are Important for Evaluation and Value | |
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| Medical treatment | |
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| Justice and formalistic ethics | |
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| The right of self-defense and emotions | |
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| How being a good person and acting well requires emotions | |
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| Many ordinary goods, especially interpersonal ones, are emotional | |
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| Emotions as Constituents and as Added Perfections | |
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| Emotions as added perfections | |
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| Emotions as constituents | |
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| Further issues | |
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| A suggestion about pleasure in books VII and X of the Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| How we are also Aristotelians about pleasure | |
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| Some Further Ways Emotions Help With Evaluative Knowledge | |
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| Emotions as epistemologically useful for justifications and for countertransference | |
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| Some other claims about the epistemological usefulness of emotions | |
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| Some general points about emotions and practical, often unarticulated, evaluative knowledge | |
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| How emotional-evaluative knowledge can be practical | |
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| Emotions as important, but perhaps not necessary, for evaluative knowledge | |
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| Case Studies: Philosophical and Other Complexities of Emotions | |
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| The Interdependence of Emotions and Psychology | |
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| Killing another person--just by way of example | |
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| Empathy and sympathy | |
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| Shame | |
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| Painful emotions | |
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| Affectivity and Self-Concern | |
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| Spiritual maladies | |
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| Anger and pride | |
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| Harm, fear, and pity | |
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| Fear | |
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| Pity and self-pity | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| The Complex Evaluative World of Aristotle's Angry Man | |
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| Orge and value | |
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| Narcissism and Aristotle's angry man | |
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| Slights, flattery, and recognition by others | |
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| The personal and the impersonal in some emotions | |
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| Who gets angry on behalf of whom | |
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| Closeness and identification | |
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| Size | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Some Final Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Index of Aristotelian and Platonic Sources | |