Ysh wrote:Maybe it is some language issue but I think to me these ''emotions'' and these ''feelings'' are some of the same things.
I think I will call this anxiety a feel. It is word talks about some ''anxious feeling.''
I think maybe you are suggest that these thing is just instinct reactions?
Good questions ...
Yeah definately the language doesn't help me cause i cannot choose the right words to explain ... i can just use words from dictionary with their litteral meaning ... but i don't know exactly which meaning you give to this words in English language ... also English doesn't have impersonal forms , but this is another discussion, too long.
Btw yeah, pretty much I mean insticts with pulse, I haven't used the word "instict", cause usually is associated to animals, but insticts of animals are different from us ... we don't really have (at least anymore) the insticts that animals have, cause we have the reason ... animal survived in the world with insticts, we survived thanks to the reason, rational mind .. this is our tool.
Emotions are different from feelings. We could say that emotions are the base for feelings. (again, here i don't know exactly what you English guys think with the words emotions and feelings ... but from dictionary these are the words)
Pulse (insticts) and emotions are inside us from nature (better to say that pulse are from nature 100%, emotions are halfway from nature and culture) and instead feelings are totally from culture.
I don't know how to explain .... i need examples ...
Humanity has always known about this, cause all the mythologies, litterature,etc.. are about those things ... you learn what pain is, what beauty is, what happiness, what desperation is, what suicide is ...and so on ... good and bad thing that may happen to you, but if you don't learn these things when a pain happen to you:
1) you cannot recognize it, you canot give it a name and you just suffer of it;
2) you have not in mind which route to take to solve that pain, cause you have not in mind any model about it;
And this happen with good feeling too ... if you haven't learned what love is, there isn't any difference for you between rape or make love with a girl ... but this is even harder to explain.
Basically emotions it's the first step when you feel something, in front of a beautifull sunset, etc... but feelings happen when you recognize them, when you can name them, when you know which is the route they can bring you .... when you are able to give them a meaning.... otherwise there won't be any difference raping or making love with a girl, or insult and punch someone, and so on .... basically what is good and what is bad, these things are from culture, we don't have them from nature, nature is irrational, undifferentiated, everything is good and everything is bad or nothing is good and nothing is bad ... we gave meaning at things with rationality trying to order the world and ourself irrationality.