Følelsernes idéhistorie - nogle mønstre og eksempler

Abstract

Emotions are the opposite of thoughts, just as sensuality is the opposite of spirit, body the opposite of soul. In the history of ideas the concept of emotions is just as miserable as the concept of sensuality and the concept of body. With the greek-orphian soma-semathought and the christian hope of salvation we have the beginning of that disruption in the view of man, which leads to doubt in body and emotions and often condemnation. lf not morally, then because of theory of knowledge (emotions as confusing the pure thought). The article deals with the historical and ideological background and gives some characteristical examples from Plato to Nietzsche.