True to our feelings [[electronic resource] ] : what our emotions are really telling us / / Robert C. Solomon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806128803321
• Autore: Solomon Robert C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-19-045132-7; 0-19-985203-0; 1-281-93096-2; 9786611930967; 0-19-972560-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.37
• Soggetti: Emotions (Philosophy); Emotions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective; Part II: Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions; Part III: The Ethics of Emotion: A Quest for Emotional Integrity; Annotated Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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