Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Have a look here: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/nussbaum_upheaval.html Interesting point: Emotions are judgements about things. Looking closer one also could say: Emoitions are the result of judging about things. Question : Can there be any judgement without mental activity ? Werner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Nisargadatta , " Werner Woehr " <wwoehr@p...> wrote: > > Have a look here: > > http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/nussbaum_upheaval.html > > Interesting point: > Emotions are judgements about things. > > Looking closer one also could say: > Emoitions are the result of judging about things. > > Question : > Can there be any judgement without mental activity ? > > Werner > J. Krishnamurti would say: " the [individual] mind wants everything to be final " When we say: " I love my wife " , then that is not love but a rememberance and a mental image that one has a loving relationship with. That kind of love, is, according to K not love at all but only a sense of possession and sentimentality. al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 On Dec 16, 2005, at 5:16 AM, Nisargadatta wrote: > Have a look here: > > http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/nussbaum_upheaval.html > > Interesting point: > Emotions are judgements about things. > > Looking closer one also could say: > Emoitions are the result of judging about things. > > Question : > Can there be any judgement without mental activity ? > > Werner > > P: Good article Werner, thanks, let's look at the main premise: " Start with emotions. What are they? What does it mean to say I feel something? One controversial answer to this question, associated with the Greek (and later Roman) philosophers known as Stoics, asserts that emotions are judgments about things. " P: Emotions are feelings produced by hormones. The release of these hormones can be triggered by perception, or by thought, and perception, of course, is colored by thought. Let's look at fear. If by the corner of my eye I see a large blur jumping at me, adrenalin pours into my brain, I feel fear, and I dock. No thought was involved. But if I was locked in a small closet as a child, my thoughts view such places as dangerous, and the mere thought of being trapped in an elevator causes fear. This fears could be defused by stripping small closed places of those thoughts which make then look dangerous. In other words there is a loop perception/thought/hormone each component reinforcing the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Hi Pete, My observations with fear are different. Fear will only arise when there is a danger and you try to escape from. When there is no impulse to move away from that danger then fear can't arise. Fear without any preceding impuls to escape is not possible. And any kind of escape is thought. Werner Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie4@e...> wrote: > > > On Dec 16, 2005, at 5:16 AM, Nisargadatta wrote: > > > Have a look here: > > > > http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/nussbaum_upheaval.html > > > > Interesting point: > > Emotions are judgements about things. > > > > Looking closer one also could say: > > Emoitions are the result of judging about things. > > > > Question : > > Can there be any judgement without mental activity ? > > > > Werner > > > > > > P: Good article Werner, thanks, let's look at the main > premise: > > " Start with emotions. What are they? What does it mean to say I feel > something? One controversial answer to this question, associated with > the Greek (and later Roman) philosophers known as Stoics, asserts that > emotions are judgments about things. " > > P: Emotions are feelings produced by hormones. The release of > these hormones can be triggered by perception, or by thought, > and perception, of course, is colored by thought. Let's look > at fear. If by the corner of my eye I see a large blur jumping > at me, adrenalin pours into my brain, I feel fear, and I dock. > No thought was involved. But if I was locked in a small closet > as a child, my thoughts view such places as dangerous, and > the mere thought of being trapped in an elevator causes fear. > This fears could be defused by stripping small closed places > of those thoughts which make then look dangerous. > > In other words there is a loop perception/thought/hormone each > component reinforcing the other. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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