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Book SynopsisWe live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings , Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don''t really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make abo
Table of ContentsPREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: EMOTIONAL STRATEGIES: AN EXISTENTIALIST PERSPECTIVE; PART II: TOWARD A GENERAL THEORY: MYTHS ABOUT EMOTIONS; PART III: THE ETHICS OF EMOTION: A QUEST FOR EMOTIONAL INTEGRITY; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
