• Reflections on the Human Emotions 

      Nafstad, Petter (Book; Bok, 2011)
      <p>The usual way to approach the philosophical study of emotions is to start out from our emotional experiences. The feelings of anger, joy, envy, fear, sadness and so on, that we have all experienced are taken as the given facts, the data, and the research is carried out as an investigation of what is implied and presupposed in such experiences. Such approaches will reveal that emotional states ...
    • Sivilisasjonens sårbarhet. David Humes analyse av samfunnsmessig utvikling 

      Nafstad, Petter (Book; Bok, 2017)
      The book describes and interprets the Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume’s theory of the basis of a society’s development from barbarism to civilization and for the maintenance of a civilized society. An analysis of the development and maintenance of civilization should, according to Hume, be conducted along three dimensions, a political, an economic and one concerning civil society. ...