• To what degree is emotion biological or “hard-wired”, and hence universal to all human beings? To what extent is it shaped by culture and hence displayed differently in different societies?
• What sorts of things count as emotions? Are emotions and feelings the same thing? • Can feelings have a rational basis? Is “emotional intelligence” an oxymoron? Robert Solomon says that emotions are “systems of judgments”, and that “virtually all of our experience is to some degree ‘affective’, and even our most dispassionate judgments…can be adequately understood only within some larger emotional context”. Is he correct in claiming that virtually all sense perception, and reasoning, must involve emotion? • Is it possible to experience an emotion, a feeling, an attitude or sensibility that cannot be expressed in language? Can an emotion, such as love or grief, have its origins in, or be shaped by, language? • Can emotions be trained? To what extent can we control our emotions, not in terms of how we act on them, but what we actually feel? Do cultures select emotions to foster and use? • Are concepts such as solidarity, patriotism and racism examples of collective emotions? • Is faith an emotion, a feeling, or neither? Pick ONE of these questions and respond in a blog post by April 22
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Gabriella Freeman
4/17/2013 01:46:54 am
Is faith an emotion, a feeling, or neither?
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Sarah Godoy
4/18/2013 08:09:55 am
What sorts of things count as emotions? Are emotions and feelings the same thing?
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Mari Teixeira
4/21/2013 11:18:51 pm
Faith is not an emotion or a feeling. Faith, as I see it, is a way that people find to feel protected no matter what. Humans in general tend to have a fear of the unknown and that, many times, causes them to create things that would be able to comfort them. The fear of death, what is going to happen next and of being forgotten causes people to rely on religion to be sure that they will be able to live in a place that they know what to expect from. Religion created a utopic place that people should go to after death. That happens because we do not know what will happen after we die and people have to rely on something for security, that something is the creation of something not only that we know but also a place that we want to live in. Although faith is not an emotion or feeling people believe it so fondly, at times, that they can cause an emotion. Religion also serves to create an expected behavior from its followers, much like the law with the only difference that people can choose or not to follow it. Therefore, although religion is nothing more than a place to rely on when we do not know what to expect, it can change peoples behavior and also evoke feelings on them.
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Mari Teixeira
4/21/2013 11:19:27 pm
My question was: Is faith an emotion, a feeling, or neither?
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Anna Pearson
5/27/2013 04:15:44 am
Can emotions be trained? To what extent can we control our emotions, not in terms of how we act on them, but what we actually feel? Do cultures select emotions to foster and use?
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Athavan Balendran
6/17/2013 06:21:23 am
Is it possible to experience an emotion, a feeling, an attitude or sensibility that cannot be expressed in language? Can an emotion, such as love or grief, have its origins in, or be shaped by, language?
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Thiago Gatto Tannus
6/18/2013 12:48:41 am
Is faith an emotion, a feeling, or neither?
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