Emotion, character, and responsibility

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Emotion, character, and responsibility

John Sabini, Maury Silver

Oxford University Press, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of essays explores why emotions are important in our conception of a person's character and in our own conception of self. Chapter topics include caring, loyalty, sincerity, shame, guilt, embarrassment and self-deception. The text is intended for clinicians, social psychologists interested in the study of emotion and interested general readers.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Emotion, Character, and Responsibility
  • 3. On the Captivity of the Will: Sympathy, Caring, and a Moral Sense of the Human
  • 4. Sincerity: Feelings and Constructions in Making a Self
  • 5. Loyalty as Good and Duty: A Critique of Stocker
  • 6. In Defense of Shame: Shame in the Context of Guilt and Embarrassment
  • 7. On Knowing Self-Deception
  • 8. On the Possible Non-Existence of Emotions: The Passions
  • Epilogue

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Details

  • NCID
    BA38272947
  • ISBN
    • 0195121678
  • LCCN
    98019103
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 175 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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