PSYC18H3 Chapter 3: Book/ Chapter 3
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Plato, who thought emotions arise from the lower part of the mind and pervert reason. The distrust was brought into the modern era by darwin who implied that, in human adults, expressions of emotions are obsolete, vestiges of our evolution from the beasts and of our development from infancy. These stances toward emotion, distrust on the one hand apprediation on the other, are constructions of western culture. The appreciation beames marked in europe and america, during the historical era of romanticism. In the romantic era promotions came to be valued in personal life, in politics, in literature, and in philosophy. Jean-jacques roosseau first 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. Wild scenery, previously thought barbarous, began to be valued. Writers began to explore the worlds of ordinary life, rather than the artificial lives of aristocrats.
