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Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self

Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self

Whiting, Demian

Hardcover

PhilosophyCognition

ISBN10: 3030546810
ISBN13: 9783030546816
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 26 2020
Pages: 233
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences' feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own. In doing so, the book serves as a valuable counterbalance to the now mainstream view that emotions are representational mental states. Beginning with a defence of a feeling theory of emotion, Whiting opens up a whole new way of thinking about the role and centrality of emotion in our lives, showing how emotion is key to a proper understanding of human motivation and the self. Whiting establishes that emotions as types of bodily feelings serve as the categorical bases for our behavioural dispositions, including those associated with moral thought, virtue, and vice.

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