Feeling without thinking: Lessons from the ancients on emotion and virtue-acquisition

Metaphilosophy

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 132-151

  Coplan, Amy ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive theory of emotion; Emotion; Emotional contagion; Intellectualism; Mirror neurons; Moral education; Noncognitive theory of emotion; Posidonius

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949381459     PISSN: 00261068     EISSN: 14679973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01626.x     Document Type: Review

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