Author: Kay McMahonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780821731826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Passion's Slave
Author: Kay McMahonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780821731826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Slaves of the Passions
Author: Mark SchroederPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199299501
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires. Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.
Not Passion's Slave
Author: Robert C. SolomonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199881847
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents a "cognitive" theory of emotions in which emotions are construed primarily as evaluative judgments. The second proposes an "existentialist" perspective in which he defends the idea that, as we are responsible for our emotions. Indeed, sometimes it even makes sense to say that we "choose" them. While the first claim has gained increasing currency in the literature, his claim about responsibility for emotions has continued to meet with considerable resistance and misinterpretation. The new emphasis on evolutionary biology and neurology has (mistakenly) reinforced the popular prejudice that emotions "happen" to us and are entirely beyond our control. This volume is also a kind of intellectual memoir of Solomon1s own development as a thinker. The essays written in the 1980s elaborate the themes of the "intentionality" of emotion and the claim that emotions are "judgments"; in this period, he is also increasingly preoccupied with how emotions vary and are identified in a variety of cultures. In the 1990's, his interests evolve to consider the social and political role of emotions and theories about emotion. The final section presents his current philosophical position on the seeming "passivity" of the passions. Despite his own critical assessment of his earlier work, he continues to argue that, in the final analysis, we are responsible for our emotions and existential quality of our lives.
De Lacy Or Passion's Slave, a Novel
Author: De LacyDe Lacy; or, Passion's slave. A novel ... By the author of Modes of Life, or Town and country
Author: Not Passion's Slave
Author: Robert C. SolomonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195179781
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The new emphasis on evolutionary biology and neurology has (mistakenly) reinforced the popular prejudice that emotions "happen" to us and are entirely beyond our control."--Jacket.
Of the passions
Author: David HumeThinking Through Feeling
Author: Anastasia Philippa ScruttonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441184147
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipotence and incorporeality. Passibilists seem to break with tradition by affirming divine emotionality, often focusing on the idea that God suffers with us. Contemporary philosophy of emotion reflects this divide. Some philosophers argue that emotions are voluntary and intelligent mental events, making them potentially compatible with omniscience and omnipotence. Others claim that emotions are involuntary and basically physiological, rendering them inconsistent with traditional divine attributes. Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility creates a three-way conversation between the debate in theology, contemporary philosophy of emotion, and pre-modern (particularly Augustinian and Thomist) conceptions of human affective experience. It also provides an exploration of the intelligence and value of the emotions of compassion, anger and jealousy.
Slave to Passion
Author: Elisabeth NaughtonPublisher: Elisabeth Naughton Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0985671912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Three djinn warriors. One power-hungry sorceress. The battle for good and evil has taken a whole new turn… From New York Times Bestselling Author Elisabeth Naughton, the second book in a series about brotherhood, survival and unexpected love in a world filled with magic and betrayal. Hope is a dangerous thing... Enslaved by his enemies and forced to fight in the pits of Jahannam for their depraved entertainment, Nasir, the once-proud Marid warrior and djinn prince, has become a killer. One celebrated and feared at the same time. Even he doesn’t remember who he used to be, nor does he care, until hope enters his cell in the form of an alluring woman who may be the key to his salvation. Sold into slavery, Kavin must prove her worth. If she can survive one night in the arms of a killer, her life will be one of luxury—albeit as a concubine, forced to serve her lascivious master. Sickened by the thought, she knows it’s better than death, and where she once dreamed of freedom, now all she wants is to stay alive. But when the gladiator refuses to touch her, her only hope for survival is seduction.
Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes Slaves of Passion
Author: Lily Bess CampbellPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Emotions
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description