Emotions and Community: An Ontological Account

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This book presents an approach to the study of emotions from the ontology of forms of life. It upholds the need to understand human emotions from the community with which the subject identifies and in which he or she is inserted. Thus, to know our emotional life is also to know the intersubjective constitution of our own consciousness. This denounces, in the first instance, the false notion that emotions are irrational and chaotic subjective phenomena, irreducible to understanding and systematic study. What we feel is directly related to what we do and who we are. That is, our feelings are determined as necessary possibilities by the form of life we incarnate. We feel emotions as we express them, and we express them in order to feel them. This also means that feeling them indicates that we have acted as our community predisposes us to act, so that emotions can be understood as guarantors of our communitys form of life.

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Daniel Rueda Garrido teaches philosophy at Colegio San Jos, Mlaga, Spain.