028. Can We Control Our Emotions? - Lunchtime Thoughts
11/15/22 • 8 min
In this series, we discuss interesting thoughts from philosophy and how they apply to everyday life, but we do it in small portions that you can listen to during a lunch break or a short commute.
Today, we have a look at emotions. It seems like emotions can always get in the way of our intentions to behave right. Greed, love, anger seem to make moral behaviour difficult if not impossible. But can we control our emotions?
Read more on the topic here on Daily Philosophy:
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Music: The Open Goldberg Variations, https://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/
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In this series, we discuss interesting thoughts from philosophy and how they apply to everyday life, but we do it in small portions that you can listen to during a lunch break or a short commute.
Today, we have a look at emotions. It seems like emotions can always get in the way of our intentions to behave right. Greed, love, anger seem to make moral behaviour difficult if not impossible. But can we control our emotions?
Read more on the topic here on Daily Philosophy:
https://daily-philosophy.com/how-to-live-an-aristotelian-life/
Brought to you by https://daily-philosophy.com.
Music: The Open Goldberg Variations, https://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/
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In this series, we discuss interesting thoughts from philosophy and how they apply to everyday life, but we do it in small portions that you can listen to during a lunch break or a short commute.
Today, we have a look at virtues, as ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle understood them. Virtues like kindness or courage are good properties of character, but does it matter if we have only some or all of them? Listen to this episode to find out!
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