I think that you are right Pat but I think we can take that as a given really, emotions certianly show the truth of how we feel.
I question though whether emotions arise from perception of the world and experiance or not? I think that perhaps when they form they do so inately without referance to that which is external of us, and then perhaps as we experinace more our intelect is build upon these first emotions. Not to deny that some emotion is not shaped by experiance, I know that my hatred for bigotry for example, would not be what it is without the experiance of growing up in 70'and 80's London. Yet I can't help but wonder where the emotion of hatred first reared its head? Also if I love much(which I think that it is clear that I do) then such emotion shapes my thoughts. What come first my 'empathy' and then my 'ideals' or do my 'ideals' feed my 'empathy'? On 28 Sep, 17:05, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
