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Dancing with the Devil - Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good
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Dancing with the Devil - Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good
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Just as a garden needs worms, we need bad feelings.... We tend to
think about bad feelings—feelings like anger, envy, spite, and
contempt—as the weeds in life's garden. You may not be able to
get rid of them completely, but you're supposed to battle them as
best you can. The best garden is one with no weeds. The best life
is one with no bad feelings. But this isn't quite right, according
to philosopher Krista K. Thomason. Bad feelings are the worms, not
the weeds. They're just below the surface, and we like to pretend
they aren't there, but they serve an important purpose. Worms are
just as much a part of the garden as the flowers, and their
presence means your garden is thriving. Gardens aren't better off
without their worms, and neither are we. The trick is learning how
to enjoy our gardens, worms and all. Thomason draws on insights
from the history of philosophy to show what we've gotten wrong
about bad feelings and to show readers how we can live better with
them. There is nothing wrong with negative emotions per se. Their
bad reputation is undeserved. Negative emotions are expressions of
self-love—not egoism or selfishness, but the felt attachment to
ourselves and to our lives. We feel negative emotions because our
lives matter to us. After explaining this, Thomason helps us look
at individual bad feelings: anger, envy and jealousy, spite and
Schadenfreude, and contempt. As she demonstrates in this tour of
negative emotions, these feelings are valuable parts of our
attachment to our lives. We don't have to battle negative emotions
or "channel" them into something productive. Bad feelings aren't
obstacles to a good life; they are part of what makes life
meaningful.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Krista K. Thomason
(Associate Professor of Philosophy)
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-767328-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-767328-7 |
Barcode: |
9780197673287 |
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