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Single Idea 24001

[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / d. Emotional feeling ]

Full Idea

A mood can focus into an emotion, and an emotion can blur out of focus into the non-specificity of mood.

Gist of Idea

Moods can focus as emotions, and emotions can blur into moods

Source

Peter Goldie (The Emotions [2000], 6 'Mood')

Book Ref

Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.148

A Reaction

I am struck by how the strong emotion of a vivid dream can remain as an inarticulate mood for the rest of the day.

The 7 ideas with the same theme [phenomenal experience of emotions]:

22510 Some emotional states are too strong for human nature [Aristotle]
23953 Feeling is a superficial aspect of emotion, and may be indeterminate, or even absent [Solomon]
20205 The feeling accompanying curiosity is neither pleasant nor painful [Zagzebski]
23968 If reasons are seen impersonally (as just causal), then feelings are an irrelevant extra [Goldie]
23969 We have feelings of which we are hardly aware towards things in the world [Goldie]
23984 An emotion needs episodes of feeling, but not continuously [Goldie]
24001 Moods can focus as emotions, and emotions can blur into moods [Goldie]