On 27 Sep, 17:13, 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?
As for me, I see emotions as the outward expression of inner
feelings. They are the way we communicate our inner feelings to those
around us. So, emotions are a form of communication of data (our
inner feelings) to those who cannot (and, perhaps, could not) perceive
them (the feelings) in an obvious way.
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