The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872202267 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.
Extraordinary, Yet Obvious Solomon's "The Passions," for me, was a life-changing read. In many ways, he anticipates and correlates psychologist Rollo May through his synthesis of philosophy, psychology, and literature into a seamless existentialist whole. While borrowing heavily from existentialist thought, Solomon does not limit himself only to that vein of philosophy. Philosophy you can actually use J. A. Whiteside Robert Solomon has gone the extra mile to make his profound philosophy accessible to the well-educated layman. At the same time, the reader needs to stretch at times to follow some of the more difficult parts of the book.The core message, though, is simply stated; if there is meaning in our lives, it is to be found in our emotions. Contrary t. On time and as expected WILL PRICE Looks like i expected with some highlighted text.
Solomon is clear, clever, and deep (also often funny). --Owen Flanagan, Duke University. The main lines of argument--that the emotions are ways we constitute our lives with meaning; that they are in some important sense things we do rather than things that merely happen to us; that emotions have their own sort of rationality and logic and are subject to evaluation and criticism as such; that emotions are, in some important sense, evaluative judgments--remain an important, credible contemporary view. A mature, wise, and provocative work