Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self

Part I On Emotion
Emotions as Conscious Mental States
Introduction
The Phenomenal Appearance of Emotion
Why Emotions are Their Phenomenal Appearances
Why Emotions are Always (Phenomenally) Conscious
Emotions as Original Existences
Introduction
The Feeling Theory of Emotion
Objections to the Feeling Theory of Emotion, and Replies
Part II On Emotion and Motivation
Urges of the Heart
Introduction
Dispositions, Stimulus Events, and Categorical Bases
Human Behavior and a Role for Emotion
Dispositions to Mental Actions or Doings
Emotion and Moral Thought
Introduction
A Distinctive Normative Role for Emotion with Respect to
Emotion as the Categorical Basis for Moral Thought
Moral Thought
Internalized Norms of Thought
Emotion, Virtue, and Situationism
Introduction
Emotions as Categorical Bases for Virtues and Vices
Implications for the Cultivation of Virtue and
Elimination of Vice
Emotion and the Situationist Critique of Virtue Theory
Part III Emotion and the Self
Our Emotional Cores
Introduction
Why the Search for an Object's Intrinsic Nature is an
Important One
Five Criteria for Being an Intrinsic Property
The Core Self
Emotion and the Fractured Self
Introduction
Emotion and Poor Mental Health
Implications for Treatment and Therapy