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Feeling vs. Judgment - Which causes which?
I am sorry. I must repeat the same question because I made a mistake. I sent the previous question accidentally in voting.
Some people consider a feeling an innate aspect of our consciousness; therefore, value judgments come from our feelings.
Some people regard value judgments as reasoning preconditions that engender our feelings.
Which of these two opposite philosophical premises have you adopted as guides for living? What are the consequences in your life for holding one principle as true instead of the other?
James ---- Thank you for your participation. I think that there is a difference between a feeling or an emotion and a sensation. A sensation is perceived through the senses without choice. The baby is not born with concepts, so he cannot decide what is good or bad for him. The baby has to discover what is pleasurable to the senses and what is painful. After he has a sensory experience (sensation not emotion) he develops a memory percept such as "keep away from fire" or "watch out for cats that scratch", etc. The memory percept, through language, becomes a concept, such as fire is something that burns, cats may scratch, etc. Concepts require words to be retained.
After the concept is acquired, an automatic emotional response is possible, such as fear of fire or fear of cats without the need of having a sensory experience. One can scream "fire" in a crowded theatre and obtain a certain emotional response from the concept fire.
Without a concept
James ---- Thank you for your participation. I think that there is a difference between a feeling or an emotion and a sensation. A sensation is perceived through the senses without choice. The baby is not born with concepts, so he cannot decide what is good or bad for him. The baby has to discover what is pleasurable to the senses and what is painful. After he has a sensory experience (sensation not emotion) he develops a memory percept such as "keep away from fire" or "watch out for cats that scratch", etc. The memory percept, through language, becomes a concept, such as fire is something that burns, cats may scratch, etc. Concepts require words to be retained.
After the concept is acquired, an automatic emotional response is possible, such as fear of fire or fear of cats without the need of having a sensory experience. One can scream "fire" in a crowded theatre and obtain a certain emotional response from the concept fire.
Without a concept that a snake is dangerous, the child cannot feel the emotion of fear when he sees a snake. Only after the parent teaches that snakes can bite, the small child reacts with some emotion when he sees one. We can change the emotion by teaching a child that certain snakes can be treated as pets and a child can learn to love certain snakes.
When we say we love someone, we have learned that love is the emotion we feel when we have decided intellectually that the person will make us happy and that we have evaluated the person as being good for us. We cannot feel love for people or things that have no value for us or that are harnful to us. To value means to have evaluated, judged or estimated. The fact that in certain cultures people are forced to marry partners chosen by parents may result in emotions such as mutual love, resentment or just convenience and indifference for each other. There is no guarantee that we judge someone good for us for the rest of our lives. Someone can become abusive and the other cannot honestly say that he or she loves to be abused.
Even when we decide to do a compassionate act, we always do it first by judgment, which means by reason, whether we feel compassion or we feel a moral duty to do it. Both emotions are dictated by a value judgment intended to serve our physical or psychological wellbeing.
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It depends on the person. I think most people make their value choices and judgment based on their feelings. Most people are not deep thinkers and just go with the flow. Then there are others who make value judgments intellectually and the feeling comes afterward. For instance, in today's day in age, most people get married because they love someone (feeling), whereas throughout some cultures people get married to someone they barely know because they think culturally it is the right thing to do (even though they don't necessarily want to) and then consciously and willfully learn to have the feeling of love for their spouse. Another example is teaching in Judaism. Religious jews and some other religions tend to say not to wait on the feeling before doing something that is morally right, because sometimes we just don't want to do what is right. Sometimes we just don't feel like helping someone stranded with a broken down car on the side of the road becaue we are in a hurry or feeling selfish at that moment. But if we do what is right and consciousy suppress our annoyance, then eventually the feelings of compassion and love for that person will come. So basically we can choose to have a certain feeing by acting that way. For instance, I used to be a very impatient uncompassionate person. But even though I didn'y feel like being patient and compassionate because it was mentally hard, I did it anyway even though I hated to sometimes and acted in a way that was compassionate and patient. I was basically faking it for a while. But as I did that, I noticed that the feelings of compassion patience came and then I started being that way because I wanted to. So to answer our question, it can be both. For me it is both. I already feel repulsed and disgusted by rape and murder, so I don't condone such activity (feeling causing a judgment). But other things like listening to my Dad's played out tired same old jokes and still laughing is something that I wouldn't normally do because it isnt funny, but I do it anyway and then it becomes funny. It is hard to do though. I hope I answered that suffienciently and coherently enough for you.
