文档介绍：In Defense of Sentimentality
ROBERT C. SOLOMON
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Defense of Sentimentality
thepassionatelife
A Series on the Philosophy of Emotions
by Robert C. Solomon
Not Passion’s Slave: Emotions and Choice
In Defense of Sentimentality
In Defense of
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Solomon, Robert C.
In defense of sentimentality / Robert C. Solomon.
p. cm.—(The passionate life)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-514550-X
1. Emotions (Philosophy) 2. Sentimentalism. I. Title.
2004
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Preface: Emotions and Sentimentality
Feeling is everything.—Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and
thinking. It requires sensitivity and devotion as well as curiosity about the
world and a critical spirit. It is a fascination not only with abstract ideas and
logically possible worlds but also with concrete and very real human concerns
and engagements, ‘‘the human condition.’’ To be a philosopher is to be
steadfastly attentive to what it means to be human, to the pass