Emotion, character, and responsibility
By: John Sabini, Maury Silver.
Contributors: Silver, Maury, 1944-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Emotions.; Character.; Responsibility.
Description: In their new book, Emotion, Character, and Responsibility, John Sabini and Maury Silver examine a conflict in the way that psychologists, philosophers, and ordinary people think about character. Most of us share an intuition that emotions are central to who we are and the characters we have, even though emotions are unchosen. Yet we also share the intuition that action, choice, and responsibility are what count about our characters.

This book deals with this conflict by exploring the relations between the chosen and unchosen, moral and nonmoral, in sincerity, loyalty, sympathy, shame, guilt, and embarrassment as they affect our characters. The conflict is resolved by finding an aesthetic as well as moral basis of character.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.