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"Hume argues that the science of man--the study of human nature--is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. The sciences of mathematics, natural philosophy, and natural religion are dependent on the knowledge of man, and this dependence seen even more clearly in the other sciences (logic, morals, criticism, and politics) whose connection with human nature is more close and intimate. The only expedient from which we can hope for success in our philosophical researches is to march up directly to human nature itself; which once being masters of, we may every where else hope for an easy victory. In pretending therefore to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a complete system of the sciences, built on a foundation almost entirely new, and the only one upon which they can stand with any security. The only solid foundation we can give to this science itself must be laid on experience and observation. We must glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behavior in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Emotions (Philosophy)

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L’éducation, l’appartenance à un genre, les responsabilités familiales et professionnelles, la brutalité de certaines expériences vécues poussent souvent les gens à réprimer leurs émotions. Le refoulement exprime un réflexe de conservation ou de survie. L’inhibition va parfois jusqu’au blocage complet des manifestations corporelles de l’émotion. Au cours des siècles, plusieurs philosophes et sages ont vu en l’émotion une maladie de l’être, troublé par des inclinations excessives et irrationnelles qui l’entraînent hors du sentier de la vie bonne. Les remèdes sont multiples, mais tendent à une culture de soi qui exalte l’impassibilité, la parfaite tranquillité de l’esprit. Pourtant, l’émotion nous motive et nous prépare à l’action. Elle nous permet de communiquer avec le monde extérieur et de nous y adapter. S’inspirant d’une vision holistique de la connaissance, le présent ouvrage convie le lecteur à contempler dans des textes de nature philosophique une culture de soi qui ne minimise ni n’invalide l’émotion.

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"The state of the world makes it difficult to look on the bright side. If there is a bright side perhaps it is that we have come to see the virtues of previously taboo emotions such as anger, sadness, anguish, anxiety, and grief. According to philosopher Mariana Alessandri, we're beginning to see that they are not evils to be avoided but valuable and sometimes even productive states. Many of us are coming to see that our darker feelings have something to teach us about ourselves, others, and what it is to be human. However, many of us don't know how to feel about what we're beginning to let ourselves feel. She asks: Is it (still) wrong for women to be angry? Is anxiety something we talk about openly now? Can we cry without apologizing yet? Our emotional landscape has been shifting, but no one's guiding us. As Alessandri says, "we need someone to help us grope around in the dark until our eyes adjust." In this book, Alessandri aims to explore these emotions and use philosophy to remove the stigma that still attaches to dark feelings. When we embrace our difficult feelings, she argues, we realize that hidden within them can be found wit and humor, closeness and warmth, connection and purpose, mission and motivation, empathy and self-knowledge, accuracy and communion. Drawing on philosophers and thinkers from Aristotle to Kierkegaard and Miguel de Unamuno to C.S. Lewis as well as contemporary philosophers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Lugones and bell hooks (as well as Fred "Mister" Rogers; more below!), Alessandri aims show how these thinkers helped to restore dignity to these feelings. Like them her aim is not to correct us but to help us feel, understand, and honor our sometimes painful emotions"--

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"E-Co-Affectivity is a philosophical investigation of affectivity in various forms of life: photosynthesis and growth in plants, touch and trauma in bird feathers, the ontogenesis of human life through the placenta, the bare interface of human skin, and the porous materiality of soil. Combining biology, phenomenology, Ancient Greek thought, new materialisms, environmental philosophy, and affect studies, Marjolein Oele thinks through concrete, living places that show the receptive, responsive power of living beings to be affected and to affect. She focuses on these localized interfaces to explain how affectivity emerges in places that are always evolving, creative, porous, and fluid. Every interface is material, but is also "more" than its current materiality in co-creating place, time, and being. After extensively describing the effects of the milieu and community within which each example of affectivity takes place, in the final chapter Oele adds a prescriptive, ethical lens that formulates a new epoch beyond the Anthropocene, one that is sensitive to the larger ecological, communal concerns at stake"

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