Emotions : problems and promise for human flourishing /
"Emotions are two-sided. They contain deep truths about what it means to be human, but they also deceive, mislead, and manipulate. They are celebrated for the insights they provide, but they also are denied, repressed, and dismissed. Though many institutions recognize and study the power of emo...
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Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Emotions as dangerous, disruptive, and symptoms of dis-ease: Socrates/Plato and early Greek perspectives
- Emotions as sinful, signs of the Fall, and impediments to salvation: Philo and early Christian theologians' perspectives
- Emotions as functional for physiological survival: Darwin and evolutionary science
- Emotions as pathological, signs of dysfunction, and indicators of need: Sigmund Freud and depth psychology
- Emotions as relational and sociocultural artifacts: challenges to natural scientific understandings
- Emotions as psychological constructions in context: recent neuroscientific discoveries
- Emotions as crucial: emotions and human flourishing
- Emotions as dangerous, disruptive, and symptoms of dis-ease: Socrates/Plato and early Greek perspectives
- Emotions as sinful, signs of the Fall, and impediments to salvation: Philo and early Christian theologians' perspectives
- Emotions as functional for physiological survival: Darwin and evolutionary science
- Emotions as pathological, signs of dysfunction, and indicators of need: Sigmund Freud and depth psychology
- Emotions as relational and sociocultural artifacts: challenges to natural scientific understandings
- Emotions as psychological constructions in context: recent neuroscientific discoveries
- Emotions as crucial: emotions and human flourishing