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The incomprehensibility of the nature of emotion

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There is a great mystery surrounding the fundamental nature of emotion. Perhaps it is truly

semantic in its nature, and yet it seems so easily warped by the in!uence of life. When one is exposed

to the world around one in a manner of technical perception, the softer, more!uid feelings within one,

so hard to analytically quantify, tend to !uctuate and respond in reaction to the sense perceptions

based on the surrounding world. I listened to John Rutters Gaelic Blessing. The recording was very

spiritually immersive, and in!uenced my perceptions of the experience through its unde"nable

beauty. While this is unable to be measured, it seems to me to have very clear e#ects and I have clear

reactions to it.

In What is a Social Fact? (https://archive.org/download

/ProtestantEthicAndTheSpiritOfCapitalismExcerpts/Durkheim%20-%20Rules.pdf) (PDF) by Emile

Durkheim, the author writes that when we wish to learn how a society is divided up politically, in what

its divisions consist and the degree of solidarity that exists between them, it is not through physical

inspection and geographical observation that we may come to "nd this out: such divisions are social,

although they may have some political basis. This situation reminds me very much of the condition of

emotion and its relationship to the nonphysical: it is a commonality to those who experience it; they

seem to be similar in their traits of reaction: just as a political bounding is set through consensus and

common agreement. In this, Durkheim has touched upon something profound, in the way that society

connects the lines tying it together and draws forth a collaborative truth in no way physical.

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (https://archive.org/download

/ProtestantEthicAndTheSpiritOfCapitalismExcerpts

/Protestant%20Ethic%20and%20the%20Spirit%20of%20Capitalism%20Excerpts.pdf) (PDF), Weber

writes that the idea of duty in ones calling prowls about in our lives like the ghost of dead religious

beliefs. He sees the change in societal positioning a#ecting the way as a society individuals perceive

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duty; in this he is touching upon a signi"cant trait of the way individuals interact with the world around

them. Through the assessment of ones duty, as society traditionally construed it, it can be concluded

that that concept has begun to fade throughout the systematization of the respect for and striving

towards freedom and equality.

In the !awed yet famous Zimbardo experiment studying emotional responses in a prison

environment (https://archive.org/download/ProtestantEthicAndTheSpiritOfCapitalismExcerpts

/Zimbardo.pdf)(PDF), we saw the clear relationship between the settings and surroundings and their

perceptions and the emotional experiences of those people participating in the study. Likely this is

inevitable and a product of the way the collective society formed within this context draws forth their

conclusions about the world they are in. It seems that this is truly immeasurable, and yet it is a

signi"cant, substantial, concrete element of society.

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