Action, Emotion and Will

✍ Scribed by Anthony Kenny

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Action, Emotion and Will was first published in 1963, when it was one of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action. Almost forty years on, Anthony Kenny's account of action and emotion is still essential reading for anyone interested in these topics.The first part of the book takes an historical look at the emotions in the work of Descartes, Locke and particularly Hume. In the second part, Kenny moves on to discuss some of the experimental work on the emotions by 20th Century psychologists like William James. Separate chapters cover feelings, motives, desire and pleasure. This edition features a brand new preface by the author.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 18
THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL......Page 20
THE EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION OF THE EMOTIONS......Page 39
FEELINGS......Page 55
MOTIVES......Page 72
DESIRE......Page 89
PLEASURE......Page 108
ACTIONS AND RELATIONS......Page 125
STATES, PERFORMANCES, ACTIVITIES......Page 139
OBJECTS......Page 150
JUDGING AND WILLING......Page 161
SKETCH OF A THEORY OF VOLITION......Page 168
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 187
INDEX......Page 189