PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes -Stoicism, Daniel Kahneman, Epicureanism

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Rather than thinking emotions are irrational, psychologists not tend to think of emotions as being locally rational: their rationality doesn"t range over all possible considerations: emotions are rational in that they help us deal adaptively with concerns specific to our current context, emotions too are the source of our values, including our deepest values: whom and what we love, what we dislike, what we despite, most importantly our emotions help us form and engage our relationships. He argued against the common sense idea that when we feel an emotion it impels is in a certain way, that if we were to meet a bear in the woods, we would feel frightened and run: instead he proposed that when we see the bear, the exciting fact as he put it, the emotions is the perception of changes of our body as we react to that fact.

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