Cover; Half title; Knowing Emotions; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I The Rational and the Passionate; 1. The Intelligence of Emotions: Differing Schools of Thought; 2. What the Empirical Evidence Suggests; Part II On Reasonable Feelings and Embodied Cognition; 3. Feeling Apprehensive; 4. Emotions as Felt Recognitions; Part III The Reasons of the Heart; 5. On the Emotional A Priori; 6. Loveâ#x80; #x99; s Knowledge; or, The Significance of What We Care About; 7. Attunement and Perspectival Truth; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Emotions are not merely physiological disturbances: they are experiences through which we apprehend truths about ourselves and the world. Emotions embody an understanding that is accessible to us only by means of affective experience. Only through emotions can we perceive meaning in life, and only by feeling emotions are we capable of recognizing the value or significance of anything whatsoever. In this work, Rick Anthony Furtak examines this topic
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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