Reflexive Emotions
Shame, Humor, Humility
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Beschreibung
This book looks closely at three first-order reflexive emotions—shame, humor and humility—that are shown to be not only exclusively human, but definitive of major aspects of human selfhood, agency and normativity. A separate chapter that covers second-order emotions, shows that when negative, they display a crucial and equally exclusive aspect of human normative self-critique.
In addition to jointly delineating agency, sapience, normativity, rationality, and the ability to critically self-reflect, this book further demonstrates the inevitable role of the we in the I (to paraphrase Axel Honneth), namely, how realizing one’s full human potential necessarily requires engaging others. This book appeals to students as well as researchers and looks closely at how these three reflexive emotions bestow categorical value on otherness, rendering normative diversity not merely something to be tolerated or rationally overcome, but a rare and necessary blessing.
Focuses attention on self-directed emotions as a uniquely human phenomenon Argues that shame, humor, and humility are definitive of human agency, normativity, sapience and rationality Reveals how living to one's full potential requires engaging others through shame, humor and humility
Autor*in
Menachem Fisch
Themen in »Reflexive Emotions«
self-directed emotions human agency normative self-critique conceptual language normative ambivalence the value of otherness Rationality and criticism philosophy and laughter reason in philosophy emotions and philosophy harry frankfurt alienation and philosophy agency and philosophy action emotion and will christine korsgaard