Sound sentiments - David Pugmire
integrity in the emotions
KORTE INHOUD
Sound Sentiments seeks to open a new path in the philosophy of emotion. The focus of most recent work on the philosophy of emotion has been on the nature of emotion, with some attention also to the relation of emotion to ethics. This book explores the idea that emotions admit of valuation, of degrees of adequacy. We cannot just decide what to think, or to desire, or to feel, as we can decide to act, and these attitudes are integral to emotions. Nonetheless, emotions canhave normative characteristics that resemble virtues. Philosophers are familiar with the notion that emotions are valuational. But how well they serve that function determines the value they themselves have.The book opens with an account of the theory of emotion, reflecting recent work on that, and considers the way in which emotions are valuational (with reference to the contributions of writers such as de Sousa, Gibbard, and McDowell). The worth of an emotional experience depends on the quality of the valuation it itself achieves. Most of the...
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2005Uitgever: Oxford University Press222 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0199276897ISBN-13: 9780199276899Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Pugmire, David] [Pagina's: 222] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Oxford, Clarendon Press] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Sound Sentiments. Integrity in the Emotions]
