What Is An Emotion?
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William James asked at the beginning of the 20th century: What is an emotion?
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The supposition is that an emotion can be defined in terms of components, such as physiology, feeling, and behavior.
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Philosophers have looked at the apparatus of knowledge and the nature of experience to try to figure out exactly how we know the world.
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Scientists have looked at the physiology of knowledge and at larger questions that involve measurements, observations, and technology to try to explain the details of our knowledge of the world.
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“Why is the world? Why do we know anything?” are alternative questions to the one posed by William James. They have a spiritual, quasi-theological, as well as a philosophical, bent.
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Today’s lesson, the question “What is an emotion?” is approached not just as a scientific one but as part of an ethical, philosophical, religious, or spiritual quest.
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What is involved in having emotions? It is a question of appreciating who we are and how we function in the world.
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Recent advances in brain science make the question particularly appealing scientifically.
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If we talk about emotions only in terms of brain mechanisms, we ignore the ageless questions about the best way to live and how emotions fit into our lives.
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We lose, too, the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of such questions.
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Today, psychologists and neurologists speak of basic emotions..
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By way of evolution and by virtue of contemporary neurology, certain kinds of emotions are packages of neurology, hormonal reactions, and musculature.
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One psychologist defines basic emotions in terms of characteristic facial expressions.
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The idea is that certain emotions—anger and fear are the two most frequent examples— trigger a neurological response.
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Consciousness, experience, and feeling are icing on the cake.
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By contrast, this lesson argues that such emotions are constitutive of our lives: They give life meaning. To reduce them to neurological syndromes is drastically incomplete.
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A subject always has a history, and it never occurs in a vacuum.
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Thus, this lesson surveys three historical periods to review the philosophy and psychology of emotional intelligence..
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