Emotions in the Moral Life - Softcover

Roberts, Robert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107576377 ISBN 13: 9781107576377

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Robert C. Roberts extends to the moral life the account of emotions presented in his Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology (2003), that they are "concern-based construals." In this book the author explains how emotions can be a basis for moral judgments, how they account for the deeper moral identity of actions we perform, how they are constitutive of morally valenced personal relationships like friendship, enmity, collegiality and parenthood, and how both pleasant and unpleasant emotions interact with our personal wellbeing (eudaimonia). He argues that none of these dimensions of emotions' values is reducible to any of the others. He continues by sketching how all of these moral dimensions contribute to emotions' participation, in diverse ways, in our virtues and vices.

About this title

Book Description:

Building on the vivid account of the emotions in his 2003 book on the subject, Robert C. Robert now extends his analysis to moral life and explains how emotions pervade ethical life, affecting our judgments, actions, relationships, and personal wellbeing, and expressing our moral character, for better or worse.

About the Author:

Robert C. Roberts is Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Baylor University. He is author of Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology (2003), Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology (2007) and Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107576377
• ISBN 13: 9781107576377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230