Slaves of the Passions
Slaves of the Passions

Author: Mark Schroeder

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-12-13

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0199299501

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Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires. Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.

Not Passion's Slave
Not Passion's Slave

Author: Robert C. Solomon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0195179781

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The new emphasis on evolutionary biology and neurology has (mistakenly) reinforced the popular prejudice that emotions "happen" to us and are entirely beyond our control."--Jacket.

Thinking Through Feeling
Thinking Through Feeling

Author: Anastasia Philippa Scrutton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1441184147

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Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipotence and incorporeality. Passibilists seem to break with tradition by affirming divine emotionality, often focusing on the idea that God suffers with us. Contemporary philosophy of emotion reflects this divide. Some philosophers argue that emotions are voluntary and intelligent mental events, making them potentially compatible with omniscience and omnipotence. Others claim that emotions are involuntary and basically physiological, rendering them inconsistent with traditional divine attributes. Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility creates a three-way conversation between the debate in theology, contemporary philosophy of emotion, and pre-modern (particularly Augustinian and Thomist) conceptions of human affective experience. It also provides an exploration of the intelligence and value of the emotions of compassion, anger and jealousy.

Slave to Passion
Slave to Passion

Author: Elisabeth Naughton

Publisher: Elisabeth Naughton Publishing LLC

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0985671912

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Three djinn warriors. One power-hungry sorceress. The battle for good and evil has taken a whole new turn… From New York Times Bestselling Author Elisabeth Naughton, the second book in a series about brotherhood, survival and unexpected love in a world filled with magic and betrayal. Hope is a dangerous thing... Enslaved by his enemies and forced to fight in the pits of Jahannam for their depraved entertainment, Nasir, the once-proud Marid warrior and djinn prince, has become a killer. One celebrated and feared at the same time. Even he doesn’t remember who he used to be, nor does he care, until hope enters his cell in the form of an alluring woman who may be the key to his salvation. Sold into slavery, Kavin must prove her worth. If she can survive one night in the arms of a killer, her life will be one of luxury—albeit as a concubine, forced to serve her lascivious master. Sickened by the thought, she knows it’s better than death, and where she once dreamed of freedom, now all she wants is to stay alive. But when the gladiator refuses to touch her, her only hope for survival is seduction.

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

Author: David Brion Davis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0195056396

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This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.