Are You Happy? Sad? Jealous?
Understand the importance of our emotions
in 24 lectures from an award-winning professor
Far from being routine, emotions are
“the key to the meaning of life,” says
distinguished philosopher and
author Robert C. Solomon, who in these
24 lectures takes you on a tour of his more
than three-decade-long intellectual struggle to reach an understanding of these
complex phenomena. Some of his conclusions are surprising and very much against
the current of common sense.
Professor Solomon’s lectures unfold as
a rich dialogue with other philosophers,
including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics,
Descartes, Adam Smith, Nietzsche,
William James, Freud, Heidegger, and
Sartre. He also relates these views to contemporary work in the cognitive sciences
on emotions. And he discusses the portrayal of emotions in writers and artists
including Homer, Shakespeare, Melville,
Dostoevsky, and Picasso.
Emotions Have Intelligence
By probing the ideas of these thinkers
and presenting his own views, The
Passions: Philosophy and the
Intelligence of Emotions will lead you to
a remarkable conclusion: 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.
This idea runs counter to the widespread view that draws a sharp distinction
between the emotional and the rational,
and that views the emotions as inferior,
disruptive, primitive, and even bestial
forces. For Professor Solomon, many
emotions are distinctly human, and they
are far more complicated than mere “
feelings.” They are rational judgments—
sophisticated strategies for survival.
One of the fascinating features of this
course is that you get to see a philosopher
wrestling with the ideas of his predecessors in a demonstration of the intellectual
Lecture Titles
1 Emotions as Engagements with the
World
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2 The Wrath of Achilles
3 It’s Good to Be Afraid
4 Lessons of Love—Plato’s Symposium
5 We Are Not Alone—Compassion
and Empathy
6 Noble? Or Deadly Sin? Pride and
Shame
7 Nasty—Iago’s Envy, Othello’s
Jealousy
8 Nastier—Resentment and Vengeance
9 A Death in the Family—The Logic
of Grief
10 James and the Bear—Emotions and
Feelings
11 Freud’s Catharsis—The Hydraulic
Model
12 Are Emotions “in” the Mind?
13 How Emotions Are Intelligent
14 Emotions as Judgments
15 Beyond Boohoo and Hooray
16 Emotions Are Rational
17 Emotions and Responsibility
18 Emotions in Ethics
19 Emotions and the Self
20 What Is Emotional Experience?
21 Emotions across Cultures—
Universals
22 Emotions across Cultures—
Differences
23 Laughter and Music
24 Happiness and Spirituality
honesty required to make progress in tackling a profound philosophical problem.
About Your Professor
Dr. Robert C. Solomon is the Quincy
Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy at
The University of Texas. A recipient of
both the Standard Oil Outstanding
Teaching Award and the President’s
Associates Teaching Award, he is the
author of more than a dozen books in philosophy and psychology.
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