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Single Idea 24017
[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions
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Full Idea
Emotion is not an accident, it is a mode of our conscious existence, one of the ways in which consciousness understands (in Heidegger's sense of verstehen) its Being-in-the-World. …It has a meaning.
Gist of Idea
Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World
Source
Jean-Paul Sartre (Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939], §III)
Book Ref
Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'Sketch for a Theory of Emotions' [Routledge 1994], p.61
A Reaction
Calling emotions a 'mode' suggests that this way of understanding is intermittent, which seems wrong. Even performing arithmetical calculations is coloured by emotions, so they go deeper than a 'mode'.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[essential nature of an emotion]:
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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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