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Informationen zum Autor Adam Morton is visiting emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext Recent years have seen an enormous amount of philosophical research into the emotions and the imagination, but as yet little work has been done to connect the two. In his engaging and highly original new book, Adam Morton shows that all emotions require some form of imagination and goes on to fully explore the link between these two important concepts both within philosophy and in everyday life.We may take it for granted that complex emotions, such as hope and resentment, require a rich thinking and an engagement with the imagination, but Morton shows how more basic and responsive emotions such as fear and anger also require us to take account of possibilities and opportunities beyond the immediate situation. Interweaving a powerful tapestry of subtle argument with vivid detail, the book highlights that many emotions, more than we tend to suppose, require us to imagine a situation from a particular point of view and that this in itself can be the source of further emotional feeling. Morton goes on to demonstrate the important role that emotions play in our moral lives, throwing light on emotions such as self-respect, disapproval, and remorse, and the price we pay for having them. He explores the intricate nature of moral emotions and the challenges we face when integrating our thinking on morality and the emotions.This compelling and thought-provoking new book challenges many assumptions about the nature of emotion and imagination and will appeal to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the role that these concepts play in our lives. The book also has far reaching implications that will spark debate amongst scholars and students for some time to come. Zusammenfassung Recent years have seen an enormous amount of philosophical research into the emotions and the imagination, but as yet little work has been done to connect the two. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii Part I The range of emotions Refined emotions 3 Imagining in emotions 8 Seeing as 17 Emotions and thinking 22 Keeping mood and emotion distinct 29 Pressure 37 Categories of emotion 44 Part II Imagining vile emotions Imagining what we shouldn't feel 53 Imagining minds: emotions and perspectives 56 Imagining a point of view 63 Misimagination 74 Imagining invented characters: fiction and philosophy 83 Invisible everyday failures 88 Imagining awful actions 94 Sympathy versus empathy 101 The tradeoff 108 Part III Memotions The threat of irrelevance 117 Retracting emotions 122 Emotions with multiple points of view 128 The variety of moral emotions 134 Emotional learning 142 Smugness 149 Part IV Families of emotions The ideas and the questions 157 Shame, regret, embarrassment, remorse 159 Shame-like versus regret-like 164 Ghosts 170 Looking backward and looking inward 175 Gaps in the pattern: shame versus guilt 180 Two kinds of pride 184 The smug family 189 Dark humour, radical possibilities 194 Shaping our emotions 198 End: a virtue if imagination 206 Notes 210 References 219 Index 229 ...
