By Jesse J. Prinz (auth.), Kathleen Higgins, David Sherman (eds.)
ISBN-10: 9400746490
ISBN-13: 9789400746497
ISBN-10: 9400746504
ISBN-13: 9789400746503
Robert C. Solomon, who died in 2007, used to be Professor of Philosophy and Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of industrial on the college of Texas, united states. because the first ebook comprehensively to ascertain the breadth of Solomon’s contribution to philosophy, this quantity ranks as an essential addition to the literature. It features a newly released transcript of Solomon’s final speak, which spoke back to Arindam Chakrabarti at the proposal of revenge, in addition to the thought of perspectives of in demand figures within the quite a few subfields during which Solomon labored. The content material analyses his views at the philosophy of emotion, advantage, enterprise ethics, and faith, as well as philosophical historical past, existentialism, and the numerous different themes that held this prolific thinker’s cognizance.
Solomon memorably outlined philosophy itself as ‘the considerate love of life’, and regardless of the variety of his output, he used to be such a lot drawn by means of critical questions about the that means of existence, the fundamental position that feelings play find that which means, and the human critical to hunt ‘emotional integrity’, during which one’s ideas, feelings, and activities all give a contribution to a coherent narrative. The essays integrated the following draw cognizance to the interconnections among the problems Solomon addressed, and evince the way during which he embodied that integrity, residing a lifestyles at one along with his philosophy. They emphasize the relevant subject matters of ardour, ethics, and spirituality, which threaded via his paintings, and how those principles expert his perspectives on how we must always process grief and dying. The multiplicity of issues by myself make this keystone paintings an enlightening learn for an entire spectrum of scholars of philosophy, offering a lot to examine and recounting a refined and shining instance of the emotional integrity Solomon labored so tough to define.
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The choice of the Self), would still remain. Under these circumstances, any meaningful sense of personal responsibility (emotional or otherwise) goes by the wayside, which reflects the limitations of a theory of the emotions that would ground itself exclusively in the existentialist approach. During the 1980s and 1990s, Solomon further developed his existential theory of the emotions by considering its relationship to the latest research findings in cultural anthropology and biology (neurobiology and evolutionary biology), which led him to modify his theory with some degree of frequency.
No evidence can, of course prove that this is true, since it is partly a matter of what counts as endorsing such a judgment. But the brain evidence shows that all other features of what are normally called belief or judgment are present in cases where the behavioral commitment is entirely lacking. If the judgment is intact in every other way when the presence of certain differences in brain response indicates a lack of motivation, it simply begs the question to claim that a judgment without motivation was not “really” endorsed.
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