Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions

The book offers a systematic study of selected aesthetic and moral emotions (beauty, admiration and disgust, anger, guilt, and the feeling of (in)justice). The text simultaneously offers an outline of a new theory of emotions and the possibilities for their linguistic apprehension through the geometry of thought.

The book offers a systematic study of selected aesthetic and moral emotions, such as beauty, admiration, disgust, anger, guilt, and the feeling of (in)justice. The authors contemplate the possibilities of their conceptual grasp and describe their psychosomatic phenomena from a rst-person perspective. They focus on a hermeneutic-phenomenological-existential analysis of the fundamental elements, structure, and signicance of these types of emotions in both individual and collective human experiences. Additionally, they provide interdisciplinary insights into the subject, enabling the comprehension of these emotional states from various perspectives, including linguistic, psychological, philosophical, cognitive scientic, legal, and theological. They document that we are not rational systems that have emotions, but rather emotional systems that occasionally behave rationally. The text simultaneously outlines a new theory of emotions and explores the possibilities for their linguistic apprehension through the geometry of thought.

Autorentext

Andrej Démuth studied philosophy and psychology. He is a Professor of Philosophy at Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the author of many books and articles on cognition and the relationship between reflected and non-reflected knowledge. His research focuses on modern philosophy, epistemology and cognitive studies.

Inhalt

Contents - Andrej Démuth,The Question Predetermines the Answer: Introduction as Foreshadowing of the Conclusion. Aesthetic and Moral Emotions - Slávka Démuthová,Beauty Historical Contexts and Contemporary Perspectives - Renáta Kioová, Admiration and Disgust Social and Moral Emotions of Admiration and Disgust - Andrej Démuth, Anger The Awareness of Evil and the Defiant Decision to Take Justice into One's Own Hands - ubo Batka,Guilt Persons in Web of Guilt. Guilt in Net of Interpretations - Olexij M. Metekany,(In)justiceOn The Indeterminacy of the Concept od (In)justice - Andrej Démuth,Outline of a Possible Mapping of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions - Summary or Conclusion?