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Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to be disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets out to analyze the content of disgust, arguing that life and death are implicit in its meaning. Disgust is a kind of philosophical emotion, reflecting the human attitude to the biological world. Yet it is an emotion we strive to repress. It may have initially arisen as a method of curbing voracious human desire, which itself results from our powerful imagination. Because we feel disgust towards ourselves as a species, we are placed in a fraught emotional predicament: we admire ourselves for our achievements, but we also experience revulsion at our necessary organic nature. We are subject to an affective split. Death involves the disgusting, in the shape of the rotting corpse, and our complex attitudes towards death feed into our feelings of disgust. We are beings with a

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities Philosophy Philosophy of mind

• Plný název: Meaning of Disgust
• Autor: Colin McGinn
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 260
• EAN: 9780199829538
• ISBN: 0199829535
• ID: 01286380
• Nakladatelství: Oxford University Press Inc
• Hmotnost: 382 g
• Rozměry: 147 × 217 × 22 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. December 2011

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