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Single Idea 2323
[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions
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Full Idea
It has been customary to distinguish between two broad categories of mental phenomena, the intentional and the phenomenal, without excluding those that have both (e.g. emotions).
Clarification
'Intentional' phenomena have content or meaning, or are about something; mental 'phenomena' are experiences
Gist of Idea
Emotions have both intentionality and qualia
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §4 p.101)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Mind in the Physical World' [MIT 2000], p.101
A Reaction
This has become the conventional modern account of the mind. It seems a little too simple to say that the mind is characterised by two clearcut phenomena like this. I suspect that his picture will be modified in time.
The
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[essential nature of an emotion]:
23951
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Emotion is a modification of bodily energy, controlling our actions
[Spinoza]
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23950
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Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity
[Freud, by Solomon]
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23981
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Rage is inconceivable without bodily responses; so there are no disembodied emotions
[James]
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24013
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An emotion and its object form a unity, so emotion is a mode of apprehension
[Sartre]
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24017
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Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World
[Sartre]
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22235
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Feelings are not unchanging, but have a history (especially if they are noble)
[Foucault]
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23952
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I say bodily chemistry and its sensations have nothing to do with emotions
[Solomon]
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23954
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Emotions are judgements about ourselves, and our place in the world
[Solomon]
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23960
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Emotions are defined by their objects
[Solomon]
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23961
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The heart of an emotion is its judgement of values and morality
[Solomon]
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23965
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Emotions can be analysed under fifteen headings
[Solomon]
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2323
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Emotions have both intentionality and qualia
[Kim]
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4906
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Babies show highly emotional brain events, but may well be unaware of them
[Carter,R]
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23978
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'Having an emotion' differs from 'being emotional'
[Goldie]
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23973
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Unlike moods, emotions have specific objects, though the difference is a matter of degree
[Goldie]
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23974
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Emotional intentionality as belief and desire misses out the necessity of feelings
[Goldie]
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23972
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A long lasting and evolving emotion is still seen as a single emotion, such as love
[Goldie]
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