Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy Robert C Solomon's Books

True to Our Feelings

What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

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True to Our Feelings

What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion--they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well. Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more "true to our feelings" and cultivate emotional integrity. The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way.

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0199725608

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Living with Nietzsche

What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

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Living with Nietzsche

What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irreverent--never has a philosopher been appropriated, deconstructed, and scrutinized by such a disparate array of groups, movements, and schools of thought. Adored by many for his passionate ideas and iconoclastic style, he is also vilified for his lack of rigor, apparent cruelty, and disdain for moral decency. In Living with Nietzsche, Solomon suggests that we read Nietzsche from a very different point of view, as a provocative writer who means to transform the way we view our lives. This means taking Nietzsche personally. Rather than focus on the "true" Nietzsche or trying to determine "what Nietzsche really meant" by his seemingly random and often contradictory pronouncements about "the Big Questions" of philosophy, Solomon reminds us that Nietzsche is not a philosopher of abstract ideas but rather of the dazzling personal insight, the provocative challenge, the incisive personal probe. He does not try to reveal the eternal verities but he does powerfully affect his readers, goading them to see themselves in new and different ways. It is Nietzsche's compelling invitation to self-scrutiny that fascinates us, engages us, and guides us to a "rich inner life." Ultimately, Solomon argues, Nietzsche is an example as well as a promulgator of "passionate inwardness," a life distinguished by its rich passions, exquisite taste, and a sense of personal elegance and excellence.

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0198036302

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True to Our Feelings

What Our Emotions are Really Telling Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

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What Our Emotions are Really Telling Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

We fall in love, feel joy, fear death, grieve, and find ourselves prey to a multitude of other emotions. 'True to our Feelings' illuminates the feelings we take for granted with cutting-edge scientific research on the brain. The emphasis is upon the personal and ethical character of our emotions.

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0199852030

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A Better Way to Think About Business

How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success

By: Robert C. Solomon

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A Better Way to Think About Business

How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success

By: Robert C. Solomon

Is business ethics a contradiction in terms? Absolutely not, says Robert Solomon. In fact, he maintains that sound ethics is a necessary precondition of any long-term business enterprise, and that excellence in business must exist on the foundation of values that most of us hold dear. Drawing on twenty years of experience consulting with major corporations on ethics, Solomon clarifies the difficult ethical choices all people in business face. He uses an "Aristotelian" approach to remind readers that a corporation--like an individual--is embedded in a community, and that corporate values such as fairness and honesty are meaningless until transformed into action. Without a base of shared values, trust and mutual benefits, today's national and international business world would fall apart. In keeping with his conviction that virtue and profit must thrive together, Solomon both examines the ways in which deficient values actually destroy businesses, and debunks the pervasive myths that encourage unethical business practices. Complete with a working catalog of virtues designed to illustrate the importance of integrity in any business situation, this compelling handbook contains a gold mine of wisdom for either the small business manager or the corporate executive struggling with ethical issues.

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019535463X

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Spirituality for the Skeptic

The Thoughtful Love of Life

By: Robert C. Solomon

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Spirituality for the Skeptic

The Thoughtful Love of Life

By: Robert C. Solomon

Is it possible to be spiritual and yet not believe in the supernatural? Can a person be spiritual without belonging to a religious group or organization? In this book, philosopher Robert Solomon offers challenging answers to these questions as he explodes commonly held myths about what is means to be spiritual in today's pluralistic world. Based on Solomon's own struggles to reconcile philosophy with religion, Spirituality for the Skeptic offers a model of a vibrant, fulfilling spirituality that embraces the complexities of human existence and acknowledges the joys and tragedies of life. Solomon has forged an enlightened new path that synthesizes spirituality with emotions, intellect, science, and common sense. His new paradigm, "naturalized" spirituality, establishes as its cornerstone the "thoughtful love of life"--a passionate concern for the here-and-now, and not the by-and-by. Being spiritual doesn't mean being holed up as a recluse, spending hours in meditation and contemplation, Solomon argues. It demands involvement and emotional engagement with others in the struggle to find meaning in our lives. As such, this modern-day spirituality encompasses a passionate enthusiasm for the world, the transformation of self, cosmic trust and rationality, coming to terms with fate, and viewing life as a gift, all of which are explored in depth throughout this book. Spirituality for the Skeptic answers the need for a non-institutional, non-dogmatic spirituality that leads to personal fulfillment and satisfaction. By examining the ideas of great thinkers from Socrates and Nietzsche to Buddha to Kafka, Solomon arrives at a practical vision of spirituality that should appeal to many seekers looking to make sense of the human condition.

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Oxford University Press

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0198030770

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Thinking about Feeling

Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions

By: Robert C. Solomon

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Thinking about Feeling

Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions

By: Robert C. Solomon

Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom. In recent years Anglo-American philosophers have rediscovered and placed new emphasis on this very old discipline. The view that emotions are ripe for philosophical analysis has been supported by a considerable number of excellent publications. In this volume, Robert Solomon brings together some of the best Anglo-American philosophers now writing on the philosophy of emotion, with chapters from philosophers who have distinguished themselves in the field of emotion research and have interdisciplinary interests, particularly in the social and biological sciences. The reader will find a lively variety of positions on topics such as the nature of emotion, the category of "emotion," the rationality of emotions, the relationship between an emotion and its expression, the relationship between emotion, motivation, and action, the biological nature versus social construction of emotion, the role of the body in emotion, the extent of freedom and our control of emotions, the relationship between emotion and value, and the very nature and warrant of theories of emotion. In addition, this book acknowledges that it is impossible to study the emotions today without engaging with contemporary psychology and the neurosciences, and moreover engages them with zeal. Thus the essays included here should appeal to a broad spectrum of emotion researchers in the various theoretical, experimental, and clinical branches of psychology, in addition to theorists in philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral psychology, and cognitive science, the social sciences, and literary theory.

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0198034970

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Building Trust in Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

By: Robert C. Solomon

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Building Trust in Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

By: Robert C. Solomon

In Building Trust, Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores offer compelling answers to these questions. They argue that trust is not something that simply exists from the beginning, something we can assume or take for granted; that it is not a static quality or ʺsocial glue.ʺ Instead, they assert that trust is an emotional skill, an active and dynamic part of our lives that we build and sustain with our promises and commitments, our emotions and integrity. In looking closely at the effects of mistrust, such as insidious office politics that can sabotage a company's efficiency, Solomon and Flores demonstrate how to move from naïve trust that is easily shattered to an authentic trust that is sophisticated, reflective, and possible to renew. As the global economy makes us more and more reliant on ʺstrangers, ʺ and as our political and personal interactions become more complex, Building Trust offers invaluable insight into a vital aspect of human relationships.

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0199869227

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True to Our Feelings

What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

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True to Our Feelings

What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

By: Robert C. Solomon

Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--what they are and how theygive meaning to life. He shows that emotions are all essential to values, andto living happily, healthily, and well.

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0195306724

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Financial Accounting

The Foundation for Business Success

By: Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy Robert C Solomon,Larry M. Walther

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Financial Accounting

The Foundation for Business Success

By: Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy Robert C Solomon,Larry M. Walther

An introduction to financial accounting for undergraduates.

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0538858508

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Book's by Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy Robert C Solomon

True to Our Feelings

True to Our Feelings

Living with Nietzsche

Living with Nietzsche

True to Our Feelings

True to Our Feelings

A Better Way to Think About Business

A Better Way to Think About Business

Spirituality for the Skeptic

Spirituality for the Skeptic

Thinking about Feeling

Thinking about Feeling

Building Trust in Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

Building Trust in Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

True to Our Feelings

True to Our Feelings

Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting

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