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What are emotions? Why are emotions important in our lives? Emotion: The Basics answers these questions, and in doing so provides accounts of the nature and value of particular emotions that are central to human existence.The overarching message is that our lives, both individual and social, would be significantly impoverished without the emotions.

Emotion: The Basics

Acknowledgments





Introduction











Chapter 1 The Nature of Emotion





How to do philosophy (of emotion)





Some complications





Three theories of emotion





A different theoretical perspective

















Chapter 2 Emotion, Knowledge, and Understanding





Curiosity





Emotion, attention, and understanding





Emotion and intellectual virtue

















Chapter 3 Emotion and Action





Emotions and decisions





Motivation, dispositions, and desires





The role of feeling in motivation

















Chapter 4 Emotions and Social Groups





Love and commitment





Pride and the communication of virtue





The social value of group emotion

















Chapter 5 Emotion, Morality, and Art





Emotion and morality





The arts and emotion

















Glossary





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