Ways of Knowing:

EmotionTheory of Knowledge

Year One

At the coreMotivation Emotion

Moveo, Moti, MotumMovere (Latin)

=to move, arouse, affect, influence

Emotions shape the landscape our our mental and social lives.

Martha Nussbaum, author of Upheavals of Thought: the intelligence of emotion

The Scope and Range of Emotion(s)

What Causes It?

External Triggers

Differences: A Question of Culture

• Tahitians, Germans & You• Priorities• Evoked… or not• The non-verbals

So what’s the deal? Who decides what “works” and what doesn’t?

Knowing Our Emotions

1. How are you feeling right now, at this moment? How do you know?

2. Why do you think you’re feeling this way?

3. Share it… (but try to guess what your partner is feeling BEFORE he/she says it.

4. To what extent do you think knowing your own feelings depends on knowing the feelings of others and others depend on knowing yours?

Can you be wrong?

Emotional Intelligence

• 45,900,000 • Howard Gardner

Knowing through Perception

Senses Gather: but can they be wrong?

How is someone feeling?

Knowing Emotion

• Through Language• External Clues• Invisible Emotion

How do you fix not knowing?

Dr. Paul EkmanAnger AmusementDisgust ContemptFear EmbarrassmentHappiness Excitement Sadness GuiltSurprise Pride

ReliefSensory PleasurePain

Knowing Emotion

• Through Reason• Relationship• Application

Emotion & Reason

Opposition or Balance ?

Its Complementary

Recent Research(classical—Phineas Gage)

Our Decision Making Capabilities

Would you agree with the assertion that reasoning can guide emotion?

What about the converse?The belief that emotion can guide

reason

Emotion & Belief

Justify your beliefs…

Can you? What do you use?rational argument (define

rational)self-evident

Emotional Education

• What shapes us?• What is acceptable?• The “right” attitudes and actions

*we’ll talk about “right” in the Ethics section

• What are we trying to educate?

For Example

Apathy SympathyEmpathy

Where is Emotion Important

Which subject upholds emotion as the most important way of knowing?

Where do you know other things by knowing your own emotions and the emotions of others?

Emotion & our AoK

• The Arts• Natural [hard] Science• Human [soft] Science• History• Mathematics• Ethics