It's easy to attribute one quality of emotion - but emotion as a whole Emotion is distinctly difficult to trace to origins of (if there is such a thing) and why it exists. The Darwinist perspective is interesting and noteworthy, but I have yet to be convinced that Emotion itself arises from the need to survive. Fear is simply one subset within Emotion and that in itself is easy to speculate an answer for, but what about love or happiness in the abstract? (shall we call that joy or a state of grace?) Things as these are harder to consider in the evolutionary framework.

It disturbs me slightly that we are trying to analyze Emotion. Why is it so hard to understand...? Perhaps because of its irrational nature...? If one were to trace back our understanding of modern emotions, the ancient Greeks viewed emotions to be the appetites and reason logos. Separate in their definitions by the very nature of being rational and irrational. How then is it possible to examine the irrational part of ourselves through the rational lens?

posted by Bryan Lee   [4:34 PM]

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