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The article in the issue 5:3:
The date of the publication:
2016-10-25
The number of pages:
117
The issue:
5:3
Commentaries:
0
The Authors
Andrzej Dąbrowski, Cezary Mordka, Robert Zaborowski, Magdalena Michalik-Jeżowska, Anna Pietrzak, Aleksandra Tokarz, Dominika Dziurawiec, Anna Głąb, Andrei Moldovan, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Agnieszka Iskra-Paczkowska, Przemysław Paczkowski,
Habilitated doctor Magdalena Michalik – Jeżowska, professor of the University of Rzeszów
Master’s degree in theoretical philosophy at the Faculty of Christian Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin (1988- 1993).
Ph. D. in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (1999).
Ph. D. in psychology at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (2006).
Habilitation in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (2017). Since 1999 employed at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Rzeszów (formerly the Pedagogical University of Rzeszów).
Research interests: philosophical anthropology, moral philosophy, philosophy of emotions, psychology of emotions and motivation, psychology of morality, social psychology.
ARTICLE:
About the Benefits of Pleasure-in-Others’-Misfortune.
Aaron Ben-Ze’ev’s Depiction of Emotions
as Adaptive Mechanisms
autor: Magdalena Michalik-Jeżowska,
This paper was inspired by two ideas: (1) the concept of emotions as adaptive
mechanisms, which was suggested by Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, and (2) Robert Solomon’s
criticism of the distinction between “positive” and “negative” emotions which
functions in social sciences. In the context of the above mentioned theoretical
perspectives I consider the infamous emotion of pleasure-in-others’-misfortune in
terms of possible benefits for the experiencing subject. I focus especially on
supposed adaptive quality of pleasure-in-others’-aging.
