- Paperback: 543 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (1 July 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520039211
- ISBN-13: 978-0520039216
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
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The challenge of explaining the emotions has engaged the attention of the best minds in philosophy and science throughout history. Part of the fascination has been that the emotions resist classification. As adequate account therefore requires receptivity to knowledge from a variety of sources. The philosopher must inform himself of the relevant empirical investigation to arrive at a definition, and the scientist cannot afford to be naive about the assumptions built into his conceptual apparatus. The contributors to this volume have approached the problem of characterizing and classifying emotions from the perspectives of neurophysiology, psychology, and social psychology as well as that of philosophical psychology. They discuss the difficulties that arise in classifying the emotions, assessing their appropriateness and rationality, and determining their function in motivating moral action.
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In the world of literature and the fine arts there are countless illustrations of the importance that introspective human beings place on the role of sensation and perception in the generation of emotional feelings. Read the first page
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Emotionally Dull
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This collection of essays approaching emotions from an analytical philosophy perspective just did not work. This dull, dry, wadi of analytic philosophy applied the most vibrant and meaningful features of our being seemed strangely odd, even inappropriate.
Ronald de Souza's essay, one of the better, and later elaborated into a full-length book, is too tight here to understand what he's after. His book, "Rationality of Emotions," with more space, is much clearer. But even the intense rational examination of emotions, which pervades this volume, gets tiresome, boring, and often wide of the mark. Can't analytical philosophy be fun?
Don't despair (an emotion, btw), because it can. Robert Solomon's "The Passions," "Love," and other works on the emotions, together with Martha Nussbaum's "Therapy of Desire" and "Upheavals of Thought," offer rigorous philosophical analysis, but not "at the expense" of emotional delight.
Examining emotions, even from an analytic point of view, can be done, and be fun. This collection, however, suggests otherwise.
Ronald de Souza's essay, one of the better, and later elaborated into a full-length book, is too tight here to understand what he's after. His book, "Rationality of Emotions," with more space, is much clearer. But even the intense rational examination of emotions, which pervades this volume, gets tiresome, boring, and often wide of the mark. Can't analytical philosophy be fun?
Don't despair (an emotion, btw), because it can. Robert Solomon's "The Passions," "Love," and other works on the emotions, together with Martha Nussbaum's "Therapy of Desire" and "Upheavals of Thought," offer rigorous philosophical analysis, but not "at the expense" of emotional delight.
Examining emotions, even from an analytic point of view, can be done, and be fun. This collection, however, suggests otherwise.
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