An Objection to the Idea of Cultivating Our Self Through

question 37

Multiple Choice

An objection to the idea of cultivating our self through our passions or emotions is that

• A)the self is a set of memories that define who we are.
• B)our emotions are mental and not physical.
• C)our emotions are physical and not mental.
• D)our emotions sometimes make us misperceive the way things really are and motivate us to do things that, with just a moment's clear thinking, we certainly would not do.

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