Given the mystery behind our emotions, it is very important that we understand what emotions are, what comprises emotions and where they spring from. Most of the times we experience emotions of different kinds such as joy, fear, anxiety or even shame but we do not really understand their meanings as well as their source. In most cases we give wrong interpretation to our emotions and misinterpret other people’s emotions. The nature of emotions and their interpretation can be achieved through philosophical investigation and analysis. It is therefore philosophy that understands emotions since it can help us analyse the sources of emotions as well as arriving at a critical interpretation of the same. Philosophy has understood emotions and according to philosophers’ interpretation, it is emotions that help give meaning to life. Philosophers provide rich explanation through critical dialogues that they present on the issue of philosophy and emotions. Most philosophers have argued that emotions involve intelligence. Since emotions involve intelligence then it is definite that philosophy understands emotions (Goleman,1995) Philosophers help to unmask commonly confusing terms that is feelings and emotions. In a bid to reveal this, the philosophers investigate the nature of the two to define whether it is an emotion or a feeling because philosophy understands what entails emotions. A major characteristic of emotions is that they are specific to human and very complex and rational. Emotions have intelligence in them and in philosophy, the philosophers strive to unravel the nature of these emotions so that those portraying the emotions can gain an understanding of the consequences of their emotions since ... ... middle of paper ... ...e cultivation of emotional intelligence as the child will not understand portrayal of such emotions in life and the child may develop misinterpretation of other people’s emotions. The child will develop mistrust among people and will not be able to establish long lasting relationships due to lack of understanding others emotions (Ann,2000). The role of philosophy in cultivating emotional intelligence is as far as nurturing is concerned cannot be downplayed. Most of the times, parents admit to have over reacted act times to their children. This was due to lack of philosophy which should have directed the parents to think before they acted but because of the emotions at that moment then they could not do otherwise. Philosophy in this case can cultivate emotional intelligence in the parents so that they can reflect on their actions before they do them.
...could then cause anger and resentment towards the parents. Fear is also invoked in this article; the fear of the child losing that little patch of innocence.
As humans, emotions are an unavoidable occurrence. People get angry, sad, happy, surprised, etcetera. In some cases, it is harder
“A response of the whole organism, involving physical arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experiences are known as emotions” (David Myers, 2007).
father to grow more aware that their parenting style wasn’t affective, and made him realize that
our minds.) For example, the anger a man feels because he missed a work meeting or the happiness the
Key principles regarding emotions have changed several times. Currently there are a total of seven theoretical principles. The first principle is that that emotion feeling derives from evolution and neurobiological development is the key psychological component of emotions and consciousness and its more often inherently adaptive than maladaptive (Izard, 2009). This principle seems to be aligned with the evolutionary approach. This principle is also aligned with the origins of emotions. Russell (2003)
“Why do emotions exist?” is a question that could be answered with numerous possibilities; each of those possibilities being parallel to other.
Emotion and cognition are intricately intertwined and hard to tell which is influencing us in our everyday lives. While the former are sometimes referred to as feelings and affects (this term would be used interchangeably with emotion in this article) or “hot cognition”, the latter is often thought as our reasoning, or “cold cognition” (Zajonc, 1980). However, it is quite evident from our day-to-day account of events that it’s always the emotional parts of life that catch our attention - especially the bad ones. For one thing, as a general phenomenon, bad news is considered more newsworthy and can easily attract more reader attention (Baumeister,
There are four main perspectives into defining an emotion, these being the evolutionary perspective, the biological perspective, the cognitive perspective and the social constructionist perspective. It is of course important, however, to begin with the earlier perspectives of emotion before we delve into the above main perspectives. Early perspectives into emotion stem from Plato, Descartes and Aristotle. Plato said that emotion responds to the object of impulse without thought or a system of regard to the overall good of a person as a whole. According to Plato, emotions are uncontrollable forces that conflict or interfere with reason and that emotions should be controlled by reason. He proposed a dualist conception of the mind and the body, in which there ...
Humans have evolved a variety of emotion; each designed to help with particular adaptive. Our ancestors were confronted with a large quantity of these problems including, avoiding predators, gathering nutrients, enticing mates, caring for progenies, and finding shelters. Because all of these problems needed to be solved, humans’ brains developed specific mechanisms that helped us to deal with these problems. According to the evolutionary perspective, Emotions are adaptive programs designed through repeated encounters that are intended to either direct other physiological programs or to directly solve adaptive problems faced by a species over time. Happiness and sadness have yet to have distinct
According to Plato, “Human behavior flows from three main sources, desire, emotion, and knowledge.” What exactly is emotion? Everyone has it, feels it, and sometimes we can’t control it. It is a dominating force that sometimes causes us to do the most remarkable and maniacal things. Strong emotion is a rational occurrence in human nature that can be demonstrated through examples in Medea, Sappho, and Force Majeure.
Emotions is a complex and heterogenous topic and require more research to be fully understood. Emotions, mood, and emotion disorder are different from each other. The main difference between these three aspects is the length of time. Although we all experience emotions we do not all experience them the same. Our culture can impact the way we feel and share our emotions. There are currently seven theoretical principles of emotions highlights the viewpoint. Facial expression are one way that we can view emotions and expressed them. Some facial expressions are universal such as anger and can be seen by the tension on a person’s
Emotional experiences are vital as they provide us with knowledge that is hard to obtain through other ways of knowing. Studies have shown that people respond correctly, when tested on past mistakes due to the presence of emotional experience (Zolfagharifard, 2015). This is owing to negative emotions such as shame, guilt, or disappointment, which increase our ability to become aware of our mistakes and gain knowledge about moral actions. Generally speaking, emotion is necessary in gaining empirical knowledge that helps us understand others.
Emotion is the “feeling” aspect of consciousness that includes physical, behavioral, and subjective (cognitive) elements. Emotion also contains three elements which are physical arousal, a certain behavior that can reveal outer feelings and inner feelings. One key part in the brain, the amygdala which is located within the limbic system on each side of the brain, plays a key role in emotional processing which causes emotions such as fear and pleasure to be involved with the human facial expressions.The common-sense theory of emotion states that an emotion is experienced first, leading to a physical reaction and then to a behavioral reaction.The James-Lange theory states that a stimulus creates a physiological response that then leads to the labeling of the emotion. The Cannon-Bard theory states that the physiological reaction and the emotion both use the thalamus to send sensory information to both the cortex of the brain and the organs of the sympathetic nervous system. The facial feedback hypothesis states that facial expressions provide feedback to the brain about the emotion being expressed on the face, increasing all the emotions. In Schachter and Singer’s cognitive arousal theory, also known as the two-factor theory, states both the physiological arousal and the actual arousal must occur before the emotion itself is experienced, based on cues from the environment. Lastly, in the cognitive-mediational theory
The feelings and emotions go hand in hand depending on who you are dealing with and what the situation you are in consist. In conclusion these two emotions are almost sometimes one and the same and share a relationship of being an emotion towards a person can feel for another person i.e. (parents, children, spouse and so forth) Or even for an object i.e. (a house, a car, money and so on).