Robert Solomon
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Robert Solomon, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, was for many years the chief international economist at the Federal Reserve Board. He is the author of the classic books The International Monetary System, 1945-1981 (Harper and Row) and The Transformation of the World Economy (Macmillan and St. Martin's Press). He is the publisher of International Economic Letter, a monthly analysis that goes to major central banks, international institutions,...
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Love and sex provide two of the primary motives of human life; the need for intimate human contact and to propagate our species. Sex is a powerful, sometimes irrational urge or instinct, but as rational creatures our human understandings and expectations of love transcend mere sexuality. Our cultural tradition says that love ideally finds its fullest expression in marriage, it says that sex properly presupposes marriage, and that the goal or purpose...
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Conventional wisdom suggests there is a sharp distinction between emotion and reason. Emotions are seen as inferior, disruptive, primitive, and even bestial forces. These 24 remarkable lectures suggest otherwise-that emotions have intelligence and provide personal strategies that are vitally important to our everyday lives of perceiving, evaluating, appraising, understanding, and acting in the world. Take a tour of Professor Solomon's more than three-decade-long...