Today was an animated discussion. Regrettably, I missed class yesterday, and with it, the introductory talks on Sartre; however, I read the materials and was significantly impacted. I think the notion that Sartre brings up in terms of emotion being a choice is relevant and almost entirely accurate, in my experience.
In discussion, we brought up the point of fate. Now, personally, I am diametrically opposed to the idea of fate. I feel that for fate to be possible, there is no room for free will, that the universe is entirely deterministic and small physical reactions completely determine all events in the world. To me, this goes against everything I believe, essentially absolving all individuals of the responsibility of their choices, since they don't actually HAVE choices. But... I think that this is not the case, that we all have the opportunity to change the world as we see fit, from moment to moment.
Tying this back into Sartre's definition of emotion, I absolutely believe that it is our decision as to how we feel. Though, I must separate Sartre's definition of "true emotion" into its constituent parts, in my theory, as both physiological emotion and psychological emotion- physiological being our physical and chemical response to an event and psychological being our reflection on an event. Of course, these are not all encompassing terms or definitions, but I feel they break down Sartre's concept of emotion fairly accurately for the scope of this blog post.
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