There are two aspects to emotional truth: how well an emotion reflects the threats and promises of the world, and how well it reflects our own individual nature. That is the starting point of this book, which looks first at the analogies and disanalogies between strict propositional truth and a looser, "generic" sense of truth.
There are two aspects to emotional truth: how well an emotion reflects the threats and promises of the world, and how well it reflects our own individual nature. That is the starting point of this book, which looks first at the analogies and disanalogies between strict propositional truth and a looser, "generic" sense of truth.
Ronald de Sousa grew up in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. After completing school in France, he obtained a B.A. from Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Based at the University of Toronto, he has lectured in over twenty countries on the emotions, philosophy of biology, ethics, and aesthetics. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.
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PART I TRUTH, COHERENCE, AND RATIONALITY 1.: PARADOXICAL EMOTIONS 2.: WHAT EMOTIONS HAVE TO SAY 3.: EMOTIONAL TRUTH AS GENERIC TRUTH 4.: TRUTH, RATIONALITY, AUTHENTICITY PART II 5.: LEARNING TO BE NATURAL 6.: EMOTIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE AND COLOR 7.: MORAL EMOTIONS 8.: WHAT ELSE IS THERE? EMOTIONS, VALUE AND MORALITY PART III 9.: EPISTEMIC FEELINGS 10.: PERVERSION AND DEATH 11.: IS ART AN ADAPTATION? 12.: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE IN LIFE AND LITERATURE PART IV 13.: DESIRE AND SERENDIPITY 14.: PERILS OF HAPPINESS 15.: LOVE UNDIGITIZED 16.: LOVE AS THEATER 17.: REPETITION AND NOVELTY
PART I TRUTH, COHERENCE, AND RATIONALITY 1.: PARADOXICAL EMOTIONS 2.: WHAT EMOTIONS HAVE TO SAY 3.: EMOTIONAL TRUTH AS GENERIC TRUTH 4.: TRUTH, RATIONALITY, AUTHENTICITY PART II 5.: LEARNING TO BE NATURAL 6.: EMOTIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE AND COLOR 7.: MORAL EMOTIONS 8.: WHAT ELSE IS THERE? EMOTIONS, VALUE AND MORALITY PART III 9.: EPISTEMIC FEELINGS 10.: PERVERSION AND DEATH 11.: IS ART AN ADAPTATION? 12.: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE IN LIFE AND LITERATURE PART IV 13.: DESIRE AND SERENDIPITY 14.: PERILS OF HAPPINESS 15.: LOVE UNDIGITIZED 16.: LOVE AS THEATER 17.: REPETITION AND NOVELTY
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