The rationality of emotion / Ronald de Sousa.

0585325006 (electronic bk.)
9780585325002 (electronic bk.)
9780262284080
0262284081
0262040921
9780262040921

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1987.

English

1 online resource (xix, 373 pages) : illustrations

B815 .D4 1987eb

128/.3

In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason.The book's twelve chapters take up the following topics: alternative models of mind and emotion; the relation between evolutionary, physiological, and social factors in emotions; a taxonomy of objects of emotions; assessments of emotions for correctness and rationality; the regulation by emotions of logical and practical reasoning; emotion and time; the mechanism of emotional self-deception; the ethics of laughter; and the roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual exclusiveness.A Bradford Book.

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