Emotions in the Moral Life [Hardcover]

This book explains how emotions pervade ethical life, affecting our judgments, actions and relationships, and expressing our moral character, for better or worse.Building on the vivid account of the emotions in his 2003 book on the subject, Robert C. Robert now extends his analysis to moral life and explains how emotions pervade ethical life, affecting our judgments, actions, relationships, and personal wellbeing, and expressing our moral character, for better or worse.Building on the vivid account of the emotions in his 2003 book on the subject, Robert C. Robert now extends his analysis to moral life and explains how emotions pervade ethical life, affecting our judgments, actions, relationships, and personal wellbeing, and expressing our moral character, for better or worse.Robert C. Roberts extends to the moral life the account of emotions presented in his Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology (2003), that they are concern-based construals. In this book the author explains how emotions can be a basis for moral judgments, how they account for the deeper moral identity of actions we perform, how they are constitutive of morally valenced personal relationships like friendship, enmity, collegiality and parenthood, and how both pleasant and unpleasant emotions interact with our personal wellbeing (eudaimonia). He argues that none of these dimensions of emotions' values is reducible to any of the others. He continues by sketching how all of these moral dimensions contribute to emotions' participation, in diverse ways, in our virtues and vices.1. Studying virtues; 2. The roles of emotions: an overview; 3. Emotions, perception, and moral judgment; 4. Objections to the perception thesis; 5. Emotional truth; 6. Emotions and actions; 7. Personal relationships; 8. Emotions and happiness; 9. Diversity and connection among the virtues.