Jordan talks with Thomas Dixon about passions and emotions. They cover topics like: What is passion, emotion, appetite, and affection? What is the history behind the changing landscape on these terms during the nineteenth century? What did Augustine and Aquinas think about them? How were they similar? How did they differ? How was "emotion" created as a category? What would those like Augustine and Aquinas think had they been alive? What is the value of the category emotion? Would it be better to go back to an older way of thinking about it? And much more!

Resources:

1) From Passions to Emotions, Thomas Dixon
2) The History of Emotions, Thomas Dixon
3) The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life, Robert Solomon
4) The Enticing Sin of Empathy, Joe Rigney
5) Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Antonio Damasio
6) The Emotions Lab
7) Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness, Lucy Foulkes
8) Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, Jean-Paul Sartre
9) Emotion: The History of a Keyword in Crisis

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