Tag: Emotions
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The emotions accompanying our mental activities
It is time to put to rest the Platonic assumption that emotions are one kind of activity (or faculty) and reasoning another kind of activity (or faculty). They are not two forces vying against each other, and it is not that one is the ‘slave’ or the ‘master’ of the other: Hume holding that reason…
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Healing the sickly vs. trying to understand another’s character
Recall that this is the invalid and deleterious argument that I have sought to examine: 5.) Because the human mind, like the human body, tends to be sickly and ill, it seeks healing or cures. In the past couple of posts, I have been trying to say some things that I believe to be accurate…
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A brief review of the cognitive theory of emotions
From time to time, I return to Martha Nussbaum’s understanding of our emotional life as it is elaborated in her books The Therapy of Desire and Upheavals of Thought. I have had reason to do so again recently. Diana Fritz Cates (see her book review: “Conceiving Emotions: Martha Nussbaum’s Upheavals of Thought,” The Journal of Religious Ethics 31.2 (Summer, 2003),…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 