How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame Across Cultures Flanagan Owen
How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame Across Cultures Flanagan Owen An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions--and how we can benefit, as individuals and a…
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How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame Across Cultures Flanagan Owen
An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions--and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger. At the same time, we witness political leaders and others who lack any sense of shame, even as they display carelessness with the truth and the common good. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel.
The ways we do these emotions offer no guarantee of emotionally or ethically balanced lives--but still we can control and change how such emotions are done. In How to Do Things with Emotions, Owen Flanagan explains that emotions are things we do, and he reminds us that those like anger and shame involve cultural norms and scripts. Flanagan makes a passionate case for tuning down anger and tuning up shame, and he observes how cultures