caa a22 4500 38636530X CHVBK 20180307111930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300016000 doi S0012217300016000 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300016000 Burns Steven Dalhousie University Reason, Love and Laughter [Elektronische Daten] [Steven Burns] Yes, this is the book that those who know Ronald de Sousa have been waiting for. Since long before his 1979 Dialogue article, there has been much interest in what de Sousa thinks about the rationality of emotions. Many promises are here fulfilled. In our traditional patriarchal philosophy, the standard view is that reason ought to be the controlling element in human nature. Commonly in this tradition, emotion is considered an opposing force—a female power allied with the irrational, and devoted to dragging men from attending to the clarity and truth which are the proper objects of their devotion. In contemporary anglophone philosophy, the distinction between reason and emotion reached a certain pitch in emotivist accounts of ethics. Recently, beginning with the critique of emotivism, there have been gestures of revision to these views of how emotions are related to reason. Bernard Williams hinted at rethinking the traditional relationship when he remarked that, "the capacity for creative emotional response has the advantage of being, if not equally, at least broadly, distributed”. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1989 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/3(1989), 499-508 0012-2173 28:3<499 1989 28 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300016000 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300016000 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Burns Steven Dalhousie University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/3(1989), 499-508 0012-2173 28:3<499 1989 28 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge