A two-part lecture, consisting of:
Part I "What Emotions Are"
Part II "How to Treat Emotions"
In these two impressive lectures, Harry Binswanger presents and “chews” the Objectivist answers to the two basic questions: what are emotions and how should one treat them?
Topics covered include:
• emotions and awareness
• emotions and value-judgments
• the biological function of emotions
• the role of the subconscious in emotional responses
• emotions distinguished from other affective states
• principles of classifying the emotions
• emotions and cognition
• emotions and objectivity
• intellectual techniques of analyzing one’s emotional responses
• emotions and moral choice
• emotions and moral judgment of self and others
• emotions as advocates, not judges
This is a sparkling philosophical, scientific, and psychological integration.
