Human affectivity

Question 1

Human affectivity

Answer 1

It is a part of the life of man that occupies a space between the senses and the intellect.
Human affectivity comprises the affections, the emotions, the sentiments and passions

Question 2

Fundamental elements in human sentiments

Answer 2

1. The object and the circumstances that provoke the sentiment.
2. The emotion or the psychological alteration.
3. The physical symptoms or the organic changes.
4. The behavior or external manifestation.

Question 3

Understanding sentiment

Answer 3

In order to understand a sentiment well, we will have to know the object that caused it, the emotion that it triggered, the physical changes it brings about and the behavior that results.

Question 4

Sentiments

Answer 4

We can define the sentiments as the way in which we experience our tendencies.
The sentiments are perturbations of our subjectivity. Since they are conscious perceptions of our tendencies, sentiments have a cognitive element. Our sentiments tell us something about the object that provoked them as well as about ourselves.

Question 5

Sensations and sentiments

Answer 5

To sense is to grasp here and now something sensible: a color, a shape, a texture, a movement, a dimension while the sentiments, however, opens up to us a richer and wider world of the human emotions.
Sensations are momentary, while sentiments can last for a long time.
Sensations cause perceptions but sentiments cause behavior.

Question 6

Types of tendencies or appetites

Answer 6

Desires

Drives

Question 7

Desires

Answer 7

The appetite of desire gives rise to the sentiment of love, which is the emotion we experience in wanting a good that is present.

Question 8

Drives

Answer 8

The drives move a person to overcome obstacles that hinder him from obtaining certain goods.

Question 9

Sentimentalism

Answer 9

To give the emotions excessive value. This view gives the emotions the role of completely determining human behavior, making them the criteria for human acts and ends in themselves

Question 10

Importance of passions

Answer 10

Provides spontaneous evaluations that determine our behavior and lead us to go in one direction or in another.
The emotions reinforce our convictions and give our convictions more driving force. When we “feel” strongly about an issue, we become more identified with it and we act in a more determined manner with regard to the issue.
To have passion in doing things gives more meaning to life and activities
A passionate person is able to give his life more unity. The passion unites his mind, will, plans, activities, everything in his life. He directs this difference aspects of his life to what he is passionate about.

Question 11

A person who cannot control his passions

Answer 11

Has something within himself that is beyond his control.

His capacity to take free decisions is compromised since he does not possess himself fully and to the same extent.

Neither can he freely decide about himself nor give himself to others moved by love: nobody can give that which he does not possess

Question 12

Distinguished the passions

Answer 12

concupiscible appetite

irascible appetite

Question 13

Concupiscible appetite

Answer 13

what is delightful and pleasurable.

Question 14

Irascible appetite

Answer 14

: a convenient good which is difficult to attain/ a difficult evil to avoid.