By Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Frechtman
ISBN-10: 080650904X
ISBN-13: 9780806509044
In The feelings: define of a Theory, French thinker Jean-Paul Sartre makes an attempt to appreciate the position feelings play within the human psyche. Sartre analyzes worry, lust, discomfort, and depression whereas announcing that people start to advance emotional features from a really early age, which is helping them determine and comprehend the sentiments’ names and traits later in life.
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But the emotive behavior is not on the same plane as the other behaviors ; it is not effective. Its end is not really to act upon the object world as such through the agency of particular means. It by itself to confer upon the object, and with out modifying it in its actual structure, another seeks quality, a lesser existence, or a lesser presence ( or t 60 t A S KE T C H OF A P H E N O M E N O L O G I C A L T HEO R Y a short) in emo tion it is consciousness, changes in order that the world greater existence, etc.
Here the comedy is only half sincere. But let the situation be more urgent, let the incantatory behavior be carried out with seriousness ; there we have emotion. For example, take passive fear. I see a wild ani mal coming toward me. My legs give way, my heart beats more feebly, I turn pale, I fall and faint. Nothing seems less adapted than this behavior which hands me over defenseless to the danger. And yet it is a behavior of escape. Here the faint ing is a refuge. Let it not be thought that this is a refuge for me, that I order not to see am myself in more.
We shall try els ewh ere to d escri be in detail the world acted upon. The thing that matters here is to show that a c t i on as spontaneous unreflective consciousness constitutes a certain existential level in the world, and th a t in orde r to act it is not necessary to be f 56 f A S KE T C H OF A P H E N O M E N O L O G I C A L T HE O RY consci o us of In short, the self as acting-quite the contrary. unreflective behavior is not unconscious is consci o us of itself non-thetically, and its way of being thetically co ns cious of itself is to t ra n s cen d itself an d to seize upon t h e world as a quality of things.
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