Emotions, Values, and the Law

by John Deigh

Overview

These essays ask questions about the nature of emotions and the place of voluntary action in our understanding of common phenomena of our moral and political lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190454272
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John Deigh is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illionis at Chicago. He is the author of The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory. He is the editor of Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Provenance and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Emotions: The Legacy of James and Freud
2. Primitive Emotions
3. Cognitivism and the Theory of Emotion
4. Emotions and Values
5. The Politics of Disgust and Shame
6. Emotions and the Authority of Law: Variations on Themes from Bentham and Austin
7. All Kinds of Guilt
8. Promises under Fire
9. Moral Agency and Criminal Insanity
10. Liberalism and Freedom