ABSTRACT
IF one studies some current philosophical writing on emotion, and then turns back to problems about educating the emotions, it is not hard to work out a plausible and attractive story of how such education can be furthered. I should like to outline this story and examine it critically—not the whole story, however, for the subject is vast. I shall look only at one special but important part of it—the part that concerns the educating of emotion through the appreciation of art; and I shall have to be selective even there. Much more will be said about literature than about the other arts.
