On the emotions / Richard Wollheim.
Material type: TextSeries: Ernst Cassirer lectures ; 1991.Publication details: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585366799
- 9780585366791
- 152.4 21
- BF531 .W65 1999eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this thought-provoking account of the emotions. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct psychological category, Wollheim argues that they are - like beliefs and desiresdispositions or underlying forces in the mind that erupt from time to time into the stream of consciousness. However, to assimilate emotions to beliefs or to desires or to some combination of the two is quite wrong. Emotions are attitudes or orientations to the world, says the author, and in this regard they are naturally associated with the imagination."--Jacket.
The originating condition -- As the emotion forms -- On the so-called moral emotions.
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