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True to our feelings : what our emotions are really telling us /
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: Comp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- pt. 1. 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
- pt. 2. Toward a general theory : myths about emotions
- 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")
- pt. 3. 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.