The Rationality of Emotion
by Ronald De Sousa
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In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason.The book's twelve chapters take up the following topics: alternative models of show more mind and emotion; the relation between evolutionary, physiological, and social factors in emotions; a taxonomy of objects of emotions; assessments of emotions for correctness and rationality; the regulation by emotions of logical and practical reasoning; emotion and time; the mechanism of emotional self-deception; the ethics of laughter; and the roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual exclusiveness. A Bradford Book. show lessTags
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Ronald de Sousa is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
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- The Rationality of Emotion
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- Philosophy, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 128.3 — Philosophy & psychology Epistemology (how do you know what you know?) Humankind Attributes and faculties
- LCC
- B815 .D4 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern Special topics and schools of philosophy
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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