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The Education of the Emotions

其他書名	A Philosophical Analysis
出版	Teachers College, Columbia University, 1970
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=y2QrnQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Chapter VI begins with a discussion of the extent to which a conventional academic education necessarily involves and shapes the emotions of the students. I then confront the initial question directly: What might be meant by the education of the emotions and how can its aim and content be described? Conceived in one way, the aim is to make emotional experience more "rational." This way of viewing education of the emotions derives from the teachings of the Stoic philosophers but has recently been revived by some psychotherapists. Another aim of education of the emotions would be that of helping people to become more aware of their own emotional states. This aim is difficult to distinguish from that of "learning to feel." Experiences designed to realize these aims play a prominent part in various forms of psychotherapy and in the work of sensitivity training and encounter groups. Since most of these experiences are generally considered therapeutic rather than educational, I provide a rationale for labelling them educational. I discuss more briefly two further possible aims of an education of the emotions, learning to express one's emotions more adequately and learning to become more sensitive to others' emotional states. I conclude with some remarks regarding the place of emotion in the good life.