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Introduction: Robert C. Solomon and the Spiritual Passions

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Robert C. Solomon saw spirituality and emotion as interpenetrating themes. I will summarize his views on spirituality and then introduce the articles in the special issue in his honor. Relating emotional integrity to spirituality, Bob argues that it is precisely through engagement - throwing ourselves into relationships and endeavors - that we come to recognize ourselves as part of something much larger than ourselves. Spirituality is an on-going adventure according to Bob, and it recommends itself in the way that all adventures do. It is exciting and fun, a matter of an overflowing passionate life.

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  1. Robert C. Solomon, “Death Fetishism, Morbid Solipsism,” in Death and Philosophy, ed. Robert C. Solomon and Jeff Malpas (New York: Routledge, 1998), 153.

  2. Robert C. Solomon, “Preface to the Hackett Edition,” The Passions (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993), p. x.

  3. Robert C. Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 6.

  4. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Biggs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888), 419.

  5. Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic, 38

  6. Ibid., 52.

  7. Ibid., 51.

  8. Ibid., 42.

  9. John Bishop, “Solomon on Spirituality,” in The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, ed. Kathleen M. Higgins, Clancy Martin, and David Sherman (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012) [forthcoming].

  10. Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic, 87–88.

  11. Nietzsche Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking Press, 1966), II:20, 139.

  12. Robert C. Solomon, True to Our Feelings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 267.

  13. Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic, p. 100.

  14. See Robert C. Solomon, “The Cross-Cultural Comparison of Emotions,” in Emotions in Asian Thought, Roger Ames and Joel Marks, eds. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), 255.

  15. See Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic, p. 43.

  16. Arindam Charkrabarti, lecture at Harvard.

  17. Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic, 105

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Higgins, K.M. Introduction: Robert C. Solomon and the Spiritual Passions. SOPHIA 50, 239–245 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-011-0246-4

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