Action, Emotion and Will

ISBN-13: 9780415305822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 192 str.

Anthony John Patrick Kenny

Opis

Almost forty years on from its original publication, Kenny's account of action and emotion is still essential reading. One of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action.

Recenzje

'This is a clear and persuasive book which contains as many sharp points as a thorn bush and an array of arguments that is as neat and formidable as a surgeon's kit.' - Philosophical Quarterly

'An original and provocative book.' - Philosophy

'This is a valuable and penetrating study in the region of philosophical psychology most resistant to analysis... Among the merits of this book is that it ends on an excellent question.' - Philosophical Books

'Kenny constructs a variety of interesting and often ingenious distinctions and analyses... [a] stimulating book.' - Philosophical Review

'Full of suggestive material and it certainly has the power to stimulate.' - Mind

Spis treści

1. The Passions of the Soul 2. The experiemental Examination of The Emotions 3. Feelings 4. Motives 5. Desire 6. Pleasure 7. Actions and Relations 8. States, Performances, Activities 9. Objects 10. Judging and Willing 11. Sketch of A Theory of Volition.

O autorze

Sir Anthony Kenny is former Professor of Philosophy at St. John's College, Oxford. he is the author of many books, including The Oxford History of Western Philosophy and Aquinas on Being.