1. Can feelings have a
rational basis? Would it be better or worse if emotions could be justified? Are
emotions and feelings essential? Is ‘emotional intelligence’ an oxymoron?
Knowledge Claim: Emotions are triggered by past experiences that result in irrational and sudden emotional response.
2. Can there be ‘correct’ or ‘appropriate’ emotional responses? Is it ‘correct’ to be horrified by accounts of torture?
Knowledge Claim: Society sets its own correct and appropriate emotional responses that classifies people as normal or abnormal.
7. Is emotion an essential ingredient of scientific or artistic knowledge?
Knowledge Claim: Creativity, as part of artistic knowledge, is set off by emotion as a result of internal feelings and perspective.
Knowledge Claim: Emotions are triggered by past experiences that result in irrational and sudden emotional response.
2. Can there be ‘correct’ or ‘appropriate’ emotional responses? Is it ‘correct’ to be horrified by accounts of torture?
Knowledge Claim: Society sets its own correct and appropriate emotional responses that classifies people as normal or abnormal.
7. Is emotion an essential ingredient of scientific or artistic knowledge?
Knowledge Claim: Creativity, as part of artistic knowledge, is set off by emotion as a result of internal feelings and perspective.
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