Emotion and Virtue

A novel approach to the crucial role emotion plays in virtuous actionWhat must a person be like to possess a virtue in full measure? What sort of psychological constitution does one need to be an exemplar of compassion, say, or of courage? Focusing on these two examples, Emotion and Virtue ingeniously argues that certain emotion traits play an

About the author

Gopal Sreenivasan is the Lester Crown University Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property.

Summary

A novel approach to the crucial role emotion plays in virtuous actionWhat must a person be like to possess a virtue in full measure? What sort of psychological constitution does one need to be an exemplar of compassion, say, or of courage? Focusing on these two examples, Emotion and Virtue ingeniously argues that certain emotion traits play an

Product details

• Authors: Gopal Sreenivasan, Sreenivasan Gopal
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780691134550
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13455-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology: emotions, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology, Ethics and moral philosophy