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What leads us to inquire about the rationality of emotions? Perhaps, at first, scepticism about the usual view of their irrationality. This view likes to pair the concepts of rational-irrational.
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This was originally a private note (A.) and an internal paper “Conditions of Life” (B.-G.) of the ‘Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung der Lebensbedingungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt’ (‘Max-Planck-Institute for Research on the Conditions of Life in the Scientific-Technical World’). This text was first published in: The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon House, 1988), pp. 142–160; translation of: Der Garten des Menschlichen (Munich: Hanser, 1977): II,4.
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Cf. The Politics of Peril (New York: Seabury Press, 1978); Chap. 7: “On the Theory of Power”, pp. 142–155; reprinted as Chap. 9 in: Ulrich Bartosch (ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Politics and Peace Reasearch (Cham et al.: Springer-Verlag, 2014), translated by Michael Shaw from: Wege in der Gefahr (Munich: Hanser, 1984), Chap. 7.
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Cf. The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon House, 1988); translation of: Der Garten des Menschlichen (Munich: Hanser, 1977); Chap. I7 (‘Beauty’): 96–102.
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Konrad Lorenz: On aggression (London: Methuen & Co., 1966); many other publishers. Translated by Marjorie Latzke from German: Das sogenannte Böse [The So-Called Evil] (Wien: Borotha-Schoeler, 1963).
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This alludes to the name of the Max-Planck-Institute where this text originated, cf. footnote 2—editor [MD].
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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2014). The Rationality of Emotions. In: Drieschner, M. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03671-7_10
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