“A practical, no nonsense approach to the world of affect from the perspective of philosophy.”

“This excellent book offers a more rigorous account than most previous Aristotelian commentators have provided of how children gain cognitive and emotional resources that enable them to develop virtues. The author’s focus on the role of emotions in this process is novel and exemplary.”

“How do we integrate our best up-to-date understandings of the psychology, physiology, and philosophy of emotion? [This] book does just that, being both a learned treatise amply illustrated by examples of many emotions we can all relate to, as well as a practical guide to understanding better our own rich life experiences.”

“An ancient-but-fresh look at the emotions as they bear on thought and action, a third way to supplement the Humean and Kantian views so frequently on offer. . . Ambitious and thoughtful.”

“An important book for all those who want to understand the core of a realist psychology. Radical and refreshing . . . emphasis that one’s emotional mechanism can be grasped as combined conscious and subconscious processes -- as the functioning of a unified mind/body. . . Worth multiple reads.”