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True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us


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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. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. 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.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: 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 Part II: Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions 9: 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") Part III: 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

About the Author :
The late Robert C. Solomon was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. A past president of the International Society for Research on Emotions, he was the author of more than forty books and did several video and audio "Superstar Teacher" courses for the Teaching Company.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195368536
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 221 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195368533
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
  • Width: 145 mm


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