Daniel Solomon 's An Extraordinary Paper Called, Emotions And Choice

One of the best defences put forth by Solomon to explain that emotions are rational is that emotions changes in regard to new information, and as a persons opinions change regarding a situation8, which are often fluid and unfixed. Therefore, according to Solomon, because emotions can be changed by an individual, they are rational. Furthermore, Solomon points out that one cannot experience the feeling of anger without choosing to be angry. (He does however, make a concession to being able to pretend to experience a feeling). To further explain how emotions are rational, Solomon argues that we can have incorrect emotions, just like we can have incorrect actions. Solomon writes “it is possible and not unusual to misidentify what one is angry about.”9 Like choosing an incorrect social action (a faux pas at social gathering), one can choose the incorrect emotion for the situation, such as feeling angry towards someone in a setting due to an inconvenience, when politeness would work better, or misinterpreting friendliness for attraction.

This third conflict is of Old vs. New but discusses the conflict of emotion and rationality. In patients with damage to orbitofrontal cortex, which regulates and produces emotions, they become very rational but also crumble in a real world setting, without having any personal, emotion drive (Haidt 12). This shows that reason and emotion are both necessary for the functioning of the human mind, the cooperation of both rider and elephant is necessary. The last conflict is that of the automatic and controlled processing of the human mind. Automatic processing is unconscious and handles many things at once, while controlled processing handles the things we consciously think about one at a time, and both of these processes are happening alongside each other continuously (Haidt 14). As I was reading a lot of this chapter I drew connections to even very simple things in my life, like when controlled processes let me see that I should get out of bed and go to work or start writing a paper for school, and so helps me overcome the urge to go right back to sleep. Controlled processes consciously perceive risks to not getting up, overcoming the automatic urge to sleep in.

Our parents raise us hoping for us to develop certain character traits, but there comes to a point when we start to become our own person based on the experiences we go through, any situation, good or bad, can influence our personality mentally and emotionally. Emotion is what makes us human, it's how we cope and how we manage our crazy lives’. When our feelings get damaged or even nourished, it will change how we react

Robert C. Solomon was an American professor of philosophy at the University of Texas in Austin. True to our feelings is the third book of the series, following In Defense of Sentimentality (OUP 2004) and an edited volume, Not Passion 's Slave (OUP 2002), where he developed his notion of the “passionate life”. Like much of Solomon 's work, this most recent contribution is written in an explicitly accessible, often autobiographical style, where he shares with the readers his fascination with emotions from the perspectives of anthropology, biology, psychology and philosophy.

You might feel satisfied after having a good night’s sleep, nervous before exams and finals, or angry when you stub your toe. However, a person’s emotions can also lead them to make bad decisions

Because of this novel, it became clearer to me that our emotions affect our decisions and the way we treat people around us. We should not let our

In this radio interview neurologist Robert Sapolsky speaks on the issue of how well do humans really have control of their own behaviors. “We have very different potentials and sorts of tendencies for behavior lurking in us. And I think some of the most sort of surprising, shocking, appalling, wonderful cases of sort of human behavior is when one side of it suddenly comes out from a person who never ever expected that"-Sapolsky. Sapolsky goes on to say that whether you think you know yourself, your subconscious will always have the final say and will bring out emotions

“Remember that even without our conscious effort, the human body is always in an emotional state. That is why movement always has meaning, and why we are interested in it at all” (Beatty, 14).

In chapter 3 “Rational Emotions” of Martha Nussbaum’s book Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and the Public Life, Nussbaum begins with the charge that “emotions are in a normative sense irrational and thus inappropriate as guides in public deliberation” (p. 55), and then Nussbaum chiefly discusses four objections to emotions. The first objection is that the emotions are blind “animal” forces, which have nothing to do with reasoning and could be a threat to good judgment. The second objection is based on a more profound view of the relationship between emotion and judgment, however, antiemotion philosophers still believe that emotions are undesirable paradigms that produce bad desires in

As someone whose heart guides most of what I do, the role of feelings in ethics seemed very interesting to me. In the words of Jean Jacques Rousseau, “’what [we] feel is right is right, what [we] feel is wrong is wrong’” (Ruggiero 29). Rousseau’s argument implies an absence of an overarching moral regime (Ruggiero 29). As someone who is fascinated by the sciences, the reference to Carl Rogers’ study of humanistic psychology excited me. Rogers agrees with Rousseau that the true guiding principles come from our intuition and emotions (Ruggiero 29). Both scholars prioritize sensations and emotions over intellect (Ruggiero 29). I agree with Rousseau and Rogers because I find myself living my happiest life when I follow my initial thoughts and pursue

“Action and feelings go together… by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.” - William James

Noble laureate, Herbrert Simon, introduced bounded rationality in decision making with respect to situations and emotions. Since then, the effect of emotions on decision making has been widely explored in various disciplines ranging from philosophy (Solomon, 1983) to neuroscience (Phelpes et al., 2014).

Philosophers and psychologists identify emotion as something you gain through many experiences you go through. There were many theories that were developed by scientist and psychologists throughout the centuries that express their beliefs on how emotion is developed. Seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke described a young child 's mind as a “tabula rasa” (blank slate) upon which the child 's experiences are recorded. A child at a young age can be easily impacted or influenced by anything that is going on around them and the way instances are perceived and responded to can affect the way the child is going to act in the future because there isn’t much. An eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau also argued that “human development was primarily a function of experience”. He believed in the existence of a natural, unspoiled state of humankind that is

There is a long tradition, fathered by Aristotle and recurring like some recessive gene in recent virtue theorists, that holds that the emotions, like acts, must be 'trained'. Consider the following:

Chapter 8 from Tools for Mindful Living converged on how to mindfully accept my emotions, so they preserve less control over my actions. Emotions, whether positive or negative, acquire the power to modify behaviors, thoughts, and judgments. This power lies controversial, as society dictates the acceptance of emotional responses. For example, many men believe that they must conceal their emotions to prevent shame, while women reside as emotional nurtures, expressing an emotional response for all actions. Existing as a woman who both senses an abundant deal of emotions, yet conceals these emotions, I rest intrigued by what this chapter reading, experience, and meditation experience offered. With an interest in this chapter, I was able to comprehend how recognition of emotions leads to a more attentive experience, as I offer myself to experience without judgment.