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The topic of emotion is of deep interest to many people, but its relation to reason and cognition, when emotion controls reason, and why emotion can be controlled by reason, are not well understood. Similarly, when situations change our emotions, should we attribute the emotion to the situation, or to the person, because another person could have reacted in a different way in the same situation? These questions lie at the heart of any study on emotions, and this book presents a model comprising of three parts—relation, cognition, and emotion—based on the Vedic theory of the soul comprising sat, chit, and ananda to discuss the problem of emotion. The crux of the theory is that while reason, cognition, and emotion are three separate features of the soul, they must always combine in order to create an experience. Hence, no experience is without an emotion. Similarly, when they combine, either of the three can be dominant or subordinate. Thus, sometimes emotion rules over cognition and relation, at other times cognition rules over relation and emotion.This model is extremely simple and yet extremely powerful, and most of the book is dedicated to illustrating its power, because the simplicity is quite apparent. That means, applying the model of the soul to solve diverse problems from the nature of atomic reality to the structure of the human body. The scope of this book is vast as it covers topics from philosophical materialism, to personality theories, to the interaction of body and mind, to symbolic expression, social organization, human relationships, and religion. Each of these is a singular and disparate area of inquiry at present. But all of these are different aspects of human experience. In that sense, what transcends individual experiences—the soul—can be used to unify the understanding of many experiences. Once the soul is understood, everything else is demystified.Chapter SummariesChapter 1 - Emotion and MaterialismThis chapter discusses the problem of atomic theory in which reason only tells how the world exists as a possibility, but to create a reality we must make a choice.Chapter 2 - Theories on EmotionThis chapter discusses several modern-day theories of emotion, and their shortcomings. Chapter 3 - Emotion and PersonalityThis chapter develops a theory of personality based on the understanding of the soul. It discusses the relation and differences from current approaches to personality—e.g. the “Big Five” and “Multiple Intelligence” theories.Chapter 4 - Emotion and BiologyThis chapter focuses on the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of emotion, and describes how the human body can be described in three ways—parts, functions, and purposes.Chapter 5 - The Emotional Basis of SocietyThis chapter discusses the Vedic theory of emotions, which classifies emotions along two dimensions—(1) six basic types, and (2) the cause of these emotions into three distinct modes. Chapter 6 - Emotions and RelationshipsThis chapter discusses different social relations associated with emotions, and illustrates how these relations fall into a hierarchy—from a greater mental ‘distance’ to greater mental ‘proximity’.Chapter 7 - The Symbols of EmotionThis chapter explores the expression of emotion across diverse symbolic domains from literature, music, art, economy, and politics, to even science and mathematics. Chapter 8 - Emotion and ReligionThis chapter discusses the role of emotion in religion, highlighting the traditional conflict between personalist and impersonalist viewpoints.
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