Feeling Our Feelings: What philosophers think and people know

摘要

First extolled by the Ancient Greek poets (ch. 1), Eros is made into a metaphor for the human condition by Plato (ch. 2). Yet to trace different approaches and answers to a single question - what does it mean to feel? - is a wonderful introduction for those students of philosophy who are turning, perhaps for the first time, to the question of passions, affects, feelings, who might want a way in, a guide to the seminal thinkers, to the alternative approaches and understandings, and to the key questions they have disclosed.