The Passions

The Passions by Robert Solomon is a defense of the view that our passions constitute our world and our Selves, and that, since our passions are rational, we are in control of them, we are responsible for them, and we can change them.ContentsReason and the PassionsReason Versus the PassionsThe Meaning of LifeThe New Romanticism Passions and the Meanings in LifeMy World and Reality SubjectivityReflection and InnocenceThe PointPhilosophical BackgroundSubjectivitySurrealismSelf and OthersThe New RomanticismThe Myth of the PassionsPhysiology Feelings and BehaviorA Subjective Theory of the PassionsWhat Is to Be Done?Life as the ProblemLife Is Cheap in CasablancaA Genealogy of the AbsurdCamuss MythThe Metaphysics of the AbsurdAbsurd ReasoningThe Passions of SisyphusThe Logic of EmotionThe Emotional Register WhosSelf-deceptionSelf-overcoming