Pequeño manual filosófico para personas emotivas

There are many prejudices around emotions, and a great condemnation weighs on them: that of considering them shameful, a sign of weakness. However, according to the philosopher Ilaria Gaspari and contrary to what is usually thought, being an emotional person does not imply instability or imbalances, it simply means being alive, being open and vulnerable to the experiences of the world. The author takes a journey through some of our emotions, such as nostalgia, anguish, envy, remorse, jealousy, antipathy and gratitude, in a guide that, above all, shows us that the words we use They have a story to express our ills: that of all the people who have lived, said, sung, studied them. Taking literature and the greatest philosophers of our civilization as a reference, in A Small Philosophical Manual for Emotional People we will discover that what is most intimate is also universal, that emotions place us in the lineage of humanity and the author urges us to recognize ourselves as beings. emotional, not to allow ourselves to be dominated by emotions, nor to repress them, but to invigorate them and allow us to be advised by their criteria. Because, after all, our emotions, what we feel, is what makes us human.