Emotion, character, and responsibility /
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 th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. Written in a jargon-free style and of interest to both academics and the lay reader, this collection of essays explores why emotions are important in the conception of a person's character and in their own conception of self. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 175 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585366020 9780585366029 1602562970 9781602562974 1280470739 9781280470738 9786610470730 6610470731 |