Emotion, reason, and action in Kant /

Emotion, reason, and action in Kant /

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Author / Creator:	Borges, Maria, author.
Imprint:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Online access: Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access.
Subject:	Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804. Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804. Emotions (Philosophy) Reason. Act (Philosophy) Agent (Philosophy) Act (Philosophy) Agent (Philosophy) Emotions (Philosophy) Reason. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12335601

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ISBN:	9781350078376 1350078379 9781350078383 1350078387 1350078360 9781350078369 9781350078390 1350078395
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2019).
Summary:	"Though Kant never used the word 'emotion' in his writings, it is of vital significance to understanding his philosophy. This book offers a captivating argument for reading Kant considering the importance of emotion, taking into account its many manifestations in his work including affect and passion. Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant explores how, in Kant's world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. On the one hand, there are positive moral emotions that can and should be cultivated. On the other hand, affects and passions are considered illnesses of the mind, in that they lead to the weakness of the will, in the case of affects, and evil, in the case of passions. Seeing the role of these emotions enriches our understanding of Kant's moral theory. Exploring the full range of negative and positive emotions in Kant's work, including anger, compassion and sympathy, as well as moral feeling, Borges shows how Kant's theory of emotion includes both physiological and cognitive aspects. This is an important new contribution to Kant Studies, suitable for students of Kant, ethics, and moral psychology."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Other form:	Print version: Borges, Maria. Emotion, reason, and action in Kant. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 9781350078369

Table of Contents:

Action, reason, and causes in Kant
Can we act without feelings? Respect, sympathy and other forms of love
A place for affects and passion in the Kantian system
What can Kant teach us about emotions?
Physiology and the controlling of affects in Kant's philosophy
Virtue as a cure for affects and passions
The beautiful and the good: refinement as an introduction to morality
Women and emotion
Evil and passion
An emotional Kant?