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Emotivists on the inside and utilitarians on the outside

Juan José Muñoz García recommends reading Emotivists on the inside and utilitarians on the outsideby José Manuel Horcajo.

Juan José Muñoz García-May 8, 2022-Reading time: < 1 minute

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TitleEmotivists on the inside and utilitarians on the outside
AuthorJosé Manuel Horcajo
Pages: 174
Editorial: Word
City: Madrid
Year: 2022

Do it only if you feel it: this is the motto of the emotivist person. It is true that emotions move and drive our lives, and without them we would not feel alive. But they cannot be the only referent for our free decisions. Postmodernity has designed, with the death of reason, the oblivion of the good of the person and the absence of coherent personal narratives, an emotivist and utilitarian subject, whose defining features are: fragility, disorientation and inner rupture.  

José Manuel Horcajo, doctor in Theology, professor at the San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University and parish priest of San Ramón Nonato in Madrid, dives in this brief essay into the philosophical history of emotivism to offer an alternative from Christian anthropology and theology. All this with a light style, close to the spiritual divulgation so in vogue nowadays, that unifies the intellectual discourse with the primacy of love as a light to discern the daily decisions of Christian life. 

The authorJuan José Muñoz García

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