On 8/21/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We first say that morality is word description of emotion structure. Therefore morality knowledge production cannot substitute for producing large scale emotional bonds for the whole of society, the whole of the working class.
Just to clarify, I use the word "aesthetics" instead of Doyle's emotion, which I take to refer to an approximately similar realm of feelings. The distinction would be that aesthetics is postively concerned with an "appreciation of the beautiful" whereas emotion is negatively associated with a "disturbance of the mind". It seems to me that when we are concerned with cultivating "positive emotions", we are indeed talking about aesthetics. Only a despot or a misanthrope would be interested in cultivating fear and hatred and I would suggest that the only way to counteract those perturbations is again through aesthetics. -- Sandwichman
