We feel, We emot, WE experience
Poetry is hell. How in the world are you suppose to critique the tone of the poet if you can't even identify the name of the moods and emotions arising. WOE WAS TO ME!! My sensei couldn't help since he lacked a concise list of the human emotions, and books could neither supply nor fathom how to aid my circumstance. It was then that I turned to Ask. Kun. I HAD NO CHOICE< I searched and I searched, AND I FOUND Aristotle's list of the ten essential human emotions. HOORAY< HOORAY!! I decided to do the polite thing and post my interpretation of the emotions since they weren't exactly written in proper English. So for all those who shall soon be writing BRI CHAN!!!!! and for all those who are currently writing HYPY CHAN!!! I bring to you, aids for character, writer and audience manipulation, emotions:
Aristotle's List of Emotions
Anger: An impulse to revenge caused by an obvious, unjustified slight with respect to the individual or his friends. Slights are of three kinds: contempt, spite, and insolence.
¨ Contempt: lack of respect accompanied by feelings of intense dislike.
¨ Spite: Feeling the need to see others suffer. To hurt the feelings of.
¨ Insolence: The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.
¨ Impertinent: Improperly forward or bold.
Mildness: The settling down and quieting of anger.
Love: Wishing for a person those things which you consider to be good. Additionally, wishing them for his sake and not your own--and tending so far as you can to affect them.
Enmity (Hatred): Whereas anger is excited by offences that concern the individual, enmity may arise without regard to the individual as such. Anger is directed against the individual and hatred is directed against things related to the individual e.g. Social Class, Race, Gender, etc.
Fear: A pain or disturbance arising from a mental image of impending evil of a painful or destructive sort.
Confidence: The opposite of fear. Confidence is the hope (anticipation), accompanied by a mental image, of things conducive to safety as being near at hand, making causes of fear seem to be either non-existent or far away.
Shame: A pain or disturbance regarding an evil(s), in the present, past, or future, which we think will tend to our discredit.
Shamelessness: A certain contempt or indifference towards specific said evils.
Benevolence: The lack of emotion found in doing kindness or returning good to another or to all others; the term represents the kind action as an action; or the kind thing done as a result.
Pity: A sense of pain at what we take to be an evil of a destructive or painful kind, which befalls one who does not deserve it. In this we feel pain at the thought that we ourselves or some one allied to us might likewise suffer it. The closer this possibility, the more intense the emotion.
Indignation: A pain at the sight of undeserved good fortune.
Envy: A disturbing pain directed at the good fortune of an equal. The pain is felt not because one desires something, but because the other persons have it.
Emulation: A pain that arises out of the desire to attain specific goods owned by others that are within our reach, but we cannot claim. This pain is felt not because the other persons have these goods, but because we do not have them as well.
Contempt: The antithesis (exact opposite) of emulation. In this, persons who are in a position to emulate or to be emulated would tend to feel contempt for those who have defects and disadvantages that impede their gaining the goods arousing their emulation.
ありがとう(Arigato) ARISTOTLE SAMA!!
Aristotle's List of Emotions
Anger: An impulse to revenge caused by an obvious, unjustified slight with respect to the individual or his friends. Slights are of three kinds: contempt, spite, and insolence.
¨ Contempt: lack of respect accompanied by feelings of intense dislike.
¨ Spite: Feeling the need to see others suffer. To hurt the feelings of.
¨ Insolence: The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.
¨ Impertinent: Improperly forward or bold.
Mildness: The settling down and quieting of anger.
Love: Wishing for a person those things which you consider to be good. Additionally, wishing them for his sake and not your own--and tending so far as you can to affect them.
Enmity (Hatred): Whereas anger is excited by offences that concern the individual, enmity may arise without regard to the individual as such. Anger is directed against the individual and hatred is directed against things related to the individual e.g. Social Class, Race, Gender, etc.
Fear: A pain or disturbance arising from a mental image of impending evil of a painful or destructive sort.
Confidence: The opposite of fear. Confidence is the hope (anticipation), accompanied by a mental image, of things conducive to safety as being near at hand, making causes of fear seem to be either non-existent or far away.
Shame: A pain or disturbance regarding an evil(s), in the present, past, or future, which we think will tend to our discredit.
Shamelessness: A certain contempt or indifference towards specific said evils.
Benevolence: The lack of emotion found in doing kindness or returning good to another or to all others; the term represents the kind action as an action; or the kind thing done as a result.
Pity: A sense of pain at what we take to be an evil of a destructive or painful kind, which befalls one who does not deserve it. In this we feel pain at the thought that we ourselves or some one allied to us might likewise suffer it. The closer this possibility, the more intense the emotion.
Indignation: A pain at the sight of undeserved good fortune.
Envy: A disturbing pain directed at the good fortune of an equal. The pain is felt not because one desires something, but because the other persons have it.
Emulation: A pain that arises out of the desire to attain specific goods owned by others that are within our reach, but we cannot claim. This pain is felt not because the other persons have these goods, but because we do not have them as well.
Contempt: The antithesis (exact opposite) of emulation. In this, persons who are in a position to emulate or to be emulated would tend to feel contempt for those who have defects and disadvantages that impede their gaining the goods arousing their emulation.
ありがとう(Arigato) ARISTOTLE SAMA!!