Emotions

Question 1

What would happen with no emotions?

Answer 1

We wouldn’t be able to choose between alternatives, wouldn’t be motivated towards any causes

Question 2

Scheler’s four forms and levels of emotional connection

Answer 2

1. Immediate community of feeling - same event evokes same emotion
2. Shared feeling in something - eg. rejoicing in someone else’s joy
3. ‘mere emotional infection’ - emotion freerides onto emotions of others
4. true emotional identification - taking other’s emotions as own

Question 3

Primary and Secondary Emotions (Theorist)

Answer 3

Theordre Kemper
Primary (biological): Fear, anger, depression, satisfaction
Secondary (sociological): guilt, shame, love, pride

Question 4

Social construction of love and intimacy

Answer 4

Become a replacement for kinship and religion, sense of attachment. But love is ideological, through socialisation.