The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life - Hardcover

Solomon, Robert C.

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9780872202276: The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872202275 ISBN 13: 9780872202276

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1993

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An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.

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About the Author:

Robert C. Solomon, (1942-2007), was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. His The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life is also available from Hackett Publishing Company.

Review:

A mature, wise, and provocative work . . . . The main lines of argument--that the emotions are ways we constitute our lives with meaning; that they are in some important sense things we do rather than things that merely happen to us; that emotions have their own sort of rationality and logic and are subject to evaluation and criticism as such; that emotions are, in some important sense, evaluative judgments--remain an important, credible contemporary view. . . . Solomon is clear, clever, and deep (also often funny). --Owen Flanagan, Duke University

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