well gabby what is your fresh input? Allan
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:18 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > You need fresh input. > > On 27 Sep., 18:13, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > What role does emotion play in our everyday lives? How does emotion > > affect our experience and being? These are questions addressed by > > some of the finest minds of our era. > > > > For Piaget, emotion is the motivating force of action emanating from > > outside the individual in the form of sensations emitted by objects. > > His view is rooted in the Newtonian conception of a universe comprised > > in isolated objects requiring an emotive force to initiate a series of > > mechanistic interactions between objects. Piaget reduces all > > conscious human experience to a cognitive formulation of these causal > > relations. His abstract concept of emotion as force fails to > > explain the relationship between bodily feelings, emotions, and higher > > forms of consciousness in human beings. > > > > Alfred North Whitehead indicates the factors in human nature which go > > to make up the particular emotions, arise from our apprehension of > > these permanent features of order in the world. His concrete concept > > of emotion gives insight into the experience of bodily feelings and > > their relationship to the growth and learning of human beings. He > > explains the emotions are the crucial mediating factors between the > > welter of awareness of these feelings in higher organisms. “We > > perceive other things which are in the world of actualities in the > > same sense as we are. So our emotions are directed toward other > > things, including of course, our bodily organs . . . the world for me > > is nothing else than how the functioning of my body present it for my > > experience.” > > > > Jean Paul Sartre sees it differently in his book, The Emotions, > > Outline of a Theory. He sees our emotion as an “abrupt drop of > > consciousness into the magical.” He believes: “emotion is not > > accidental modification of a subject which would otherwise be plunged > > into an unchanged world. It is easy to see that every emotional > > apprehension of an object which frightens, irritates, sadness, etc., > > can be made only on the basis of a total alteration of the world. In > > order that an object may in reality appear terrible, it must realize > > itself as an immediate and magical presence face to face with > > consciousness.“ In other words, we modify our experience with emotion > > to make it more comfortable, according to our own nature. We emote > > sadness, anger or gloom because “lacking the power and will to > > accomplish the acts which we have been planning, we behave in such a > > way that the universe no longer requires anything of us.” > > > > What do YOU think? > > > -- ( ) I_D Allan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
