PSYC18H3 Lecture : Emotions ch 3.docx
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Plato- thought emotions rise from the lover part of the mind and pervert reason. Distrust was brought by darwin who implied that in human adults, the expression of emotions are obsolete, vestiges of our evolution from the beasts and of our development from infancy. We also think emotion are the very guarantee of authenticity. Appreciation became marked in europe and america, during the historical era of romanticism. Emotions came to be valued in personal life, in politics in literature and philosophy. Jean jacques rousseau published the idea that religious sensibility is based on how you feel rather than on authority or on scripture or on arguments for the existence of god. He proposed instead that education should be natural and that people s natural emotions indicate what is right. 1800 romanticism had become firmly part of western culture. It inspired poets novelist dramatists painters and musicians through art and to move readers.
