Blogging on 'emotions'


There is probably nothing new in speaking about emotions. It is happening for more than thousands of years and the topic has been addressed by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and not only. Emotions are part of our day to day life, movies, music, dramas, decision making, problem solving, and what not. I really wonder whether there is anything, any mental process, which could categorically be separated from emotions.
What is relatively new regarding emotions, is the attempt to make sense of them, i.e. of trying to understand how they impel us on doing what we do, of being what we are. This is my journey on trying to approach the 'passions' as Descartes, and others before him, called them, meaning ‘the perceptions, feelings or emotions of the soul which we relate specifically to it, and which are caused, maintained and fortified by some movement of the [animal] spirits’

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