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The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions
- Narrated by: Robert C. Solomon
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
Conventional wisdom suggests there is a sharp distinction between emotion and reason. Emotions are seen as inferior, disruptive, primitive, and even bestial forces. These 24 remarkable lectures suggest otherwise-that emotions have intelligence and provide personal strategies that are vitally important to our everyday lives of perceiving, evaluating, appraising, understanding, and acting in the world.
Take a tour of Professor Solomon's more than three-decade-long intellectual struggle to reach an understanding of emotions, which he argues are, "the key to the meaning of life." A distinguished philosopher himself, Professor Solomon's lectures unfold as a rich dialogue with other philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Adam Smith, Nietzsche, William James, Freud, Heidegger, and Sartre.
In your exploration, you'll address such questions as: how do we distinguish emotions from feelings, such as heartache? What is the meaning of our emotions, and how do they serve to enrich and guide our lives? Are there a determinable number of basic emotions that serve as building blocks for the range of emotions we experience? Is an emotion such as jealousy a genetic trait shared by all humans - or is it something learned? As you listen to these lectures, prepare to think: Think about your own emotions; think about what you observe in others; think about the enormous body of research and conjecture on this fascinating topic as Professor Solomon takes you on a challenging and stimulating journey. The more we puzzle over the nature of emotions, the deeper the mystery becomes. It is a mystery that is by no means solved, but one that repays in careful, philosophical analysis.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Kindle Customer
- 14-08-24
The entire great course series Fantastic, Awesome
High Quality series the Entire Great Courses carrying high value. Remarkable series Wide range of lectures and subjects
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- Paola
- 24-09-17
fascinating
Wonderful audiobook. Continuously challenging commonly held opinions with new, interesting thoughts. Not on abstract theories, but concerned with concepts and ieas that impact on daily life. Perfectly clear to a novice to the field. A warm, humble, friendly voice - arguing his way along with down-to-earth examples - too sad he is no longer alive.
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- Holly Parker
- 06-06-17
Riveting listening
Absolutely loved listening to this series if lectures, from an academic perspective they are engaging and accessible to the listener, outlining the complex nature of several emotions while tracking the temporal development of critical thinking through Aristotle, Kant, Hume and beyond.
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- Lt
- 22-10-22
excellent!!
really interesting and approachable, great display of wisdom! Solomon's view of emotions considers psychology and anthropology in very creative ways.
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- Oscar Ramos
- 05-06-23
Great course indeed !
Not always easy to follow but worth every penny. There are many chapters that I might be tempted to listen again.
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- ShaneG
- 27-02-17
Fantastic
Absolutely brilliant set of lectures, very interesting questions posed and a lot of arguments given to explain and defend his stance
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- Kelli
- 28-06-20
A great speaker
A really great listen. With an easy to listen to voice and easy to understand explanations.
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- Tom
- 31-10-17
deeply philosophical, and very interesting.
longer than I expected, but a great perspective on emotions. a philosophical approach to discussing. possibly a great companion to 'self comes to mind's by Antonio dimassio
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- Jonty
- 07-02-21
Mostly okey but has racist and sexist undertones
Claiming that races have a predisposition to addiction to substance abuse is wrong; so think about this, well take peoples land, freedom culture and identity?
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- Martin
- 25-09-22
Avoid
This course is basically a guy pretending you need half hour lectures to define simple words and it is definitely not a 'great course' nor is it philosophy.
The author frequently makes dubious statements without any discussion and passes off highly biased opinions as facts.
As other reviewers have stated, it is long winded and full of waffle. Ironically it causes many of the negative emotions described, such as irritation, anger and resentment over a wasted credit and time that would have been better spent elsewhere.
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