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Early Greek Thought and the Philosophers of the Enlightenment Era

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Western thought on emotion owes considerable debt to the ideas of early Greek thinkers. Both explicitly and implicitly, ancestral Greek thought has influenced our everyday sense of emotion and shaped our scientific knowledge of this peculiar concept in several fields including biology, sociology, psychology and economics. By comparison, the relatively new field of organizational change has not yet explored the influence of early Greek thought, specifically with regard to emotions. Addressing this prospect, this chapter explores the journey of philosophers in search of what emotion is and how it manifests behaviour. To develop the relevant focus, philosophical narrations are expounded in places that draw on modern organizational change situations faced by employees.

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Talat, U. (2017). Early Greek Thought and the Philosophers of the Enlightenment Era. In: Emotion in Organizational Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47693-3_1

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