Questions tagged [emotions]
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Is there a psychological/philosophy concept/term that encompasses the experience of extreme/overwhelm emotional states?
Is there a psychological or philosophy concept or term that encompasses the experience of extreme emotional states, where emotions like wrath, love, or sorrow become so intense that they overwhelm an ...
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How can we know if the Apollonian and Dionysian really exist?
I'm currently in the summer between my freshman and sophomore years. During the fall, I had a class on Oedipus Tyrannus and we read it with Aristotle, Freud, and Nietzche. I found many of the ...
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual? [closed]
Throughout my life, I have often heard from individuals in our nation's news organizations, from those in Academia, from local/state/federal government officials, from corporate human resources ...
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What category does bliss belong to? [closed]
According to philosophers, is bliss an emotion? Or does it belong to a different category of thing?
Bliss is defined as according to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, as being "1. ...
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Exploring Methods for Articulating the Ineffable Nature of Emotions: Philosophical Insights Needed
In the realm of human experience, both emotions and colors possess an ineffable quality, challenging our ability to fully articulate them through language. This resemblance highlights a fundamental ...
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Is courage the victory of the beautiful over the sublime?
Assumption behind the question: Kant variously divided the aesthetic types into two or three: the agreeable, the beautiful, and the sublime. Somewhere (in the SEP or IEP, I don't remember), I was ...
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Is there an affective state of knowledge or belief? [closed]
Is there an affective state of knowledge or belief? Can I affectively or emotionally know that my wife is having an affair or that I am not the father of my children, but not be able to justify to ...
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What, if anything, is the flaw in SMBC's "happiness-3" comic?
Today's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal raises in interesting philosophical issue.
The comic posits a machine that makes your life perfect and happy, and asks if people would get bored of this. The ...
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What do philosophers say about vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism?
Animal kingdom can be divided into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.
What do the philosophers say about the consequences of being herbivores, carnivores(including cannibals) or omnivores ?
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Can life have meaning when all your happiness is from a clear illusion?
When all your happiness is from a clear illusion, is your life meaningless? I am not talking about intentionally living a lie, because I don't mean lying to yourself about it, but feeling as if it ...
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Must people be employed to have dignity and self-worth?
I have heard all my life about how people would not have self-worth without being employed, and they would become depressed or just do unhealthy things. I read a Sci-fi story about AI where ultimately,...
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Is the task of philosophy to reduce fear?
There seems little contemporary work on 'fear'. I certainly couldn't see anything which gave it such important a role. But
Fear, in the Ethics, seems to be government’s most valuable means of ...
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Is it “irrational” for your emotions to not cohere with evidence?
Let’s use fear as an example and negative events as events that may cause that fear.
Should fear, if you feel it, and the intensity of it correlate with how strongly likely an event is?
For example, ...
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Does fear stem from unjustified assumptions?
If I fear X, does that usually mean that I am worried that X may be true even if there is no evidence for it? If so, is fear nothing but an unjustified assumption?
Note that by fear, I do not mean the ...
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Can philosophy say that "love" doesn't exist? [closed]
There must be much for a philosopher to say about such a vivid manifold phenomenon as "love"
There are said to be different forms of love: agape (universal love), philautia (self-love), ...
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