Back to Search
Start Over
CAN HUMAN EMOTIONS BE CHANGED?
- Source :
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Jan1966, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p27-31, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 1966
-
Abstract
- The article discusses the human emotion which is a neural mental state that arises subjectively rather than through conscious effort and evokes either a positive or negative psychological response. The emotions whose susceptibility to change is questioned, are not these transient, manifest, experienced states but rather an inferred inner core of emotional drives, the essence of man's nature. The philosopher is here concerned with the deep and unstoppable well-springs within the very soul of man, not his daily moods but his abiding lusts. It is in this sense that the issue of emotions alternately phrased as instincts which lies at the heart of the question of the changeability of human nature.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00963402
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21499239
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.1966.11454885