Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions

The book offers a systematic study of selected aesthetic and moral emotions, such as beauty, admiration, disgust, anger, guilt, and the feeling of (in)justice. The authors contemplate the possibilities of their conceptual grasp and describe their psychosomatic phenomena from a first-person perspective. They focus on a hermeneutic-phenomenological-existential analysis of the fundamental elements, structure, and significance of these types of emotions in both individual and collective human experien