By Robert Solomon
This quantity can also be a sort of highbrow memoir of Solomon¹s personal improvement as a philosopher. The essays written within the Eighties intricate the topics of the "intentionality" of emotion and the declare that feelings are "judgments"; during this interval, he's additionally more and more preoccupied with how feelings range and are pointed out in a number of cultures. within the 1990's, his pursuits evolve to think about the social and political function of feelings and theories approximately emotion. the ultimate part offers his present philosophical place at the seeming "passivity" of the passions. regardless of his personal serious evaluate of his previous paintings, he keeps to argue that, within the bottom line, we're chargeable for our feelings and existential caliber of our lives.
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