Beschreibung:
The authors explore why emotions are important in our conception of a person's character and in our own conception of self. Chapter topics include caring, loyalty, sincerity, shame, guilt, and embarrassment. Together they provide an illuminating and provocative account of emotional life.
1. Introduction; 2. Emotion, Character, and Responsibility; 3. On the Captivity of the Will: Sympathy, Caring, and a Moral Sense of the Human; 4. Sincerity: Feelings and Constructions in Making a Self; 5. Loyalty as Good and Duty: A Critique of Stocker; 6. In Defense of Shame: Shame in the Context of Guilt and Embarrassment; 7. On Knowing Self-Deception; 8. On the Possible Non-Existence of Emotions: The Passions; Epilogue