[Matt] ...you might check out Martha Nussbaum's Upheavals of Thought if you haven't already run into it. She's part classicist, part philosopher, part all-around-know-it-all, and that book is a major entry into rethinking the emotions, and she spends some time on the centrality of narrative to growth and whatnot.
[Krimel] Finally got around to looking that up on Amazon. I may buy it, but at 700+ pages it will be a while before I get around to reading it... I have heard Robert Solomon expound on the intelligence of emotions. Howard Gardner includes a couple of affective categories among his multiple intelligence and Daniel Goleman has seized on two of them in his writing about emotional intelligence. Since emotions have mainly been seen as irrational, intelligence is a good term. Rational implies rule governed and surely the emotions aren't that. But intelligent in the sense of heuristically on target is pretty good. Pretty good is good enough in evolution. Breeding in a sense of what will help and what will harm you seems fundamental in Darwin's world. Natures' strategy of shifting distributions of traits through time favors a good heuristic. My early take on narrative is that it is a strategy for imposing sequence on our random access memory. But that could just be the inner geek talking. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
