Emotion, character, and responsibility
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Emotion, character, and responsibility
Oxford University Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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