True to Our Feelings What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

This book states that we live our lives through our emotions, and that it is our emotions which 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. This book illuminate...

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Main Author Solomon, Robert C
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 02.10.2008
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Edition1
Subjects
Emotions
Emotions (Philosophy)
Philosophy of Mind
love
guilt
character
emotions
living
happiness
compassion
jealousy
anger
fear
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Summary:This book states that we live our lives through our emotions, and that it is our emotions which 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. This book 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. The book provides a guide to cutting-edge scientific research, as well as to what philosophers and psychologists have said on the subject, but it also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. The book shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense; rather, they are judgments 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.
ISBN:9780195368536
0195368533
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368536.001.0001