Summary
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The study of emotion tends to breach traditional academic boundaries and binary lingustics. It requires multi-modal perspectives and the suspension of dualistic conventions to appreciate its complexity.
This book analyses historical, philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, post-structural, and technological perspectives of emotion that it argues are important for a viable social psychology of emotion. It begins with early ancient philosophical conceptualisations of pathos and ends with analytical discussions of the transmission of affect which permeate the digital revolution.
It is essential reading for upper level students and researchers of emotion in psychology, sociology, psychosocial studies and across the social sciences.
Hellenistic and Medieval Theologies of Emotion
Hellenistic and Medieval Theologies of Emotion
Key Aims
In this chapter we will present Stoic, Islamic and Christian theological contributions to emotion theories. In doing so we will:
- Reflect on how Plato's and later Aristotle's works influenced these theorisations of emotion
- Discuss how emotion was understood to be regulated and could be used to regulate social activity
- Distinguish how voluntary and involuntary aspects of emotion experience were conceptualised through the first and second movements
- Draw attention to distinctions between higher and lower forms of emotion
Introduction
The theories of emotion that we looked at in the previous chapter were often concerned with morality and ethics; for example, how to live ‘the good life’. This was also a predominant theme throughout the medieval period (and beyond). Western philosophy, ...
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