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We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings , Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion--they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well.Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more 'true to our feelings' and cultivate emotional integrity.

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Book category Books in English Health & personal development Self-help & personal development Popular psychology

• Full title: True to Our Feelings
• Subtitle: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
• Author: Robert C. Solomon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780195368536
• ISBN: 0195368533
• ID: 04518386
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 464 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. October 2008

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