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Wisdom in Love - Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity (Hardcover, New)
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Wisdom in Love - Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity (Hardcover, New)
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In this historically informed work in moral psychology, Rick
Anthony Furtak develops a conceptual account of the emotions that
addresses the conventional idea that reason and emotion stand in
sharp opposition. Furtak begins with a critical examination of the
ancient Stoic position that emotions should be avoided by rational
human beings. He argues that, on the contrary, emotions ought to be
understood as embodying a kind of authentic insight, which enables
us to attain a meaningful and truthful way of seeing the world.
Furtak's positive alternative to Stoicism draws heavily on the
writings of Soren Kierkegaard, particularly "Either/Or" and "Works
of Love," while also engaging a wide range of other relevant
philosophical, literary, and religious sources. He argues that a
morality of virtue and narrative awareness is necessary for
accurate emotional perception, and then attempts to define a
qualified value realism based upon a reverential trust in love as
the ground of life as we know it. The outcome of this inquiry into
the possibility of reliable emotion is an account of the ideal
state in which a person could trust himself or herself to be
rational in being passionate. Wisdom in Love makes an original
contribution to the philosophy of the emotions and provides a new
and compelling interpretation of Kierkegaard's work as a whole.
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