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By Julien Deonna,Fabrice Teroni

ISBN-10: 0415614929

ISBN-13: 9780415614924

ISBN-10: 0415614937

ISBN-13: 9780415614931

The feelings are on the centre of our lives and, for higher or worse, imbue them with a lot in their value. The philosophical difficulties stirred up by way of the lifestyles of the sentiments, over which many nice philosophers of the prior have laboured, revolve round makes an attempt to appreciate what this value quantities to. Are feelings emotions, ideas, or reports? in the event that they are reviews, what are they reports of? Are feelings rational? In what experience do feelings supply desiring to what surrounds us?


The feelings: A Philosophical Introduction introduces and explores those questions in a transparent and available means. The authors speak about the subsequent key topics:




  • the variety and harmony of the emotions

  • the kin among emotion, trust and desire

  • the nature of values

  • the kin among feelings and perceptions

  • emotions seen as evaluative attitudes

  • the hyperlink among feelings and evaluative knowledge

  • the nature of moods, sentiments, and personality traits.


Including bankruptcy summaries and publications to extra analyzing, The feelings: A Philosophical Introduction is a perfect start line for any thinker or scholar learning the feelings. it's going to even be of curiosity to these in similar disciplines akin to psychology and the social sciences.

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