This book explores moral questions that go beyond the issues
commonly considered in the ethics of action. Can there be an ethics
of emotion or an ethics of fantasy? If what we feel and what we
think are beyond the direct control of our will, does it make sense
to set norms or standards for us to aim at in those spheres, or
does anything go? What are the limits of our freedom? And what are
the sources of our standards? Are they themselves a matter of
arbitrary feeling or do there exist authorities we might turn to in
order to find our way? We are told that authenticity is valuable,
that we must be true to ourselves. Is the self and what it wants
the ultimate source of value? (Even the nastier parts of our
natures?) How are we to determine which aspects of ourselves are
essential and demand and deserve expression? Are there competing
and conflicting sources of value? The claims of Plato, Freud,
Sartre and other important thinkers are considered, criticized, and
brought into play in the service of greater self-understanding and
understanding of what matters and what is up to us. Throughout, the
insights and approaches of law, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and
other disciplines in addition to philosophy are put to use. The
essays included in this collection draw on and develop the author's
earlier work on emotions and moral identity in the Spinozist hope
that greater self-understanding, because of the special features of
reflexive-knowledge, can lead to greater freedom, making us better
able to live with others and with ourselves. "Philosophy of emotion
and Freudian theory are now thriving areas of philosophy, but they
were not when Neu began; he was instrumental in making them so. His
essays on emotion, particularly the classic papers on jealousy,
helped pave the way for the rehabilitation of emotion that has
transformed moral philosophy. There is every reason to believe,
then, that the present collection will stand as a significant
contribution to scholarship on Freud, Emotion, and Morality." -
John Doris, Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis "Jerome
Neu is one of the most insightful contemporary writers on the
philosophy of emotions. His first essay collection, A Tear is an
Intellectual Thing, was a major contribution to our thinking about
the nature of emotions (in general and with respect to particular
emotions) and their important implications in the actual texture of
our moral lives. This essay collection is a worthy successor and
provides a rich analysis of particular emotions (love, for
example), an exploration of the relationship between emotions and
authenticity and freedom, enlightening discussions of Freud and his
critics, and the role of emotions in the law." - Jeffrie G. Murphy,
Law, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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