Emotions in the Moral Life

Informationen zum Autor Robert C. Roberts is Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Baylor University. He is author of Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology (2003), Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology (2007) and Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues (2007). Klappentext This book explains how emotions pervade ethical life, affecting our judgments, actions and relationships, and expressing our moral character, for better or worse. Zusammenfassung Building on the vivid account of the emotions in his 2003 book on the subject! Robert C. Roberts now extends his analysis to moral life and explains how emotions pervade ethical life! affecting our judgments! actions! relationships and personal wellbeing! and expressing our moral character! for better or worse. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Studying virtues; 2. The roles of emotions: an overview; 3. Emotions, perception, and moral judgment; 4. Objections to the perception thesis; 5. Emotional truth; 6. Emotions and actions; 7. Personal relationships; 8. Emotions and happiness; 9. Diversity and connection among the virtues.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Roberts, Robert C Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Robert C. (Baylor University Roberts, ROBERTS ROBERT C, Roberts Robert C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107016828
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01682-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy