Upheavals of Thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 766
ISBN-13: 9780521462020
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Psychology; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy; Social Psychology; Emotions; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Emotivism; History & Surveys - General; Emotions and cognition
First sentence: Emotions, I shall argue, involve judgments about important things, judgments in which, appraising an external object as salient for our own well-being, we acknowledge our own neediness and incompleteness before parts of the world that we do not fully control.