“Evaluate the ways in which emotion might enhance and/or undermine reason as a Way of Knowing.” Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) once said that "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing"‚ meaning that emotion is irrational and unreasonable. Emotional expression provides powerful communication between people‚ especially in the early childhood stage of our lives‚ before language even develops. A baby’s glowing smile invites love and care in its surrounding; the pounding cry of an infant can
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feel about the situation. What many of us do not consider is the fact that our emotions do play a big role within our thinking. Even if we do not realise it‚ emotion influences our knowledge. The definition of emotion is: a strong and instinctive feeling. And should be distinguished from reasoning or logic. As there are several ways of knowing‚ such as authority‚ faith‚ or practice there is also the way of knowing by instinct; for example breathing‚ as we breath unconsciously from birth on.
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Evaluate the way emotion may undermine or enhance perception as a Way of Knowing How do we know what we know? There are a variety of ways of knowing such as Perception‚ Emotion‚ Language and reason. In this essay‚ I will explore how emotion may undermine or enhance perception as a way of knowing. Perception‚ “per·cep·tion /pərˈsɛp[pic]ʃən/ Pronunciation Key -[per-sep-shuh[pic]n]” [1]‚ is the immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation‚ as of moral‚ psychological‚ or aesthetic
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EMOTION ESSAY “The mind leads‚ the emotions follow” -Ayn Rand Emotion is a state of psychological stimulation and an expression of distinct responses[1]. Emotional states can be defined by particular bodily responses. Emotion is more similar to conscious thought than feelings are to conscious thought. Feelings are more like sensations‚ when you touch something you get a feeling[2]. Therefore feelings are processed faster than emotions‚ because when you touch something there is a slight
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chosen based on what I know about being a woman. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines the term “Expert” as the following: having or showing special skill or knowledge because of what you have been taught or what you have experienced (Merriam-Webster) By way of this definition‚ I consider myself an expert in general womanhood. WHNP is a focus on the primary medical management of women’s health throughout the phases of a woman’s life. Many aspects of a woman’s life are variables that will affect her general
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Carper (1978) identified four fundamental patterns of knowing which are (1) empirics‚ or the science of nursing; (2) personal knowledge; (3) esthetics‚ or the art of nursing; and (4) ethics‚ or the moral component of nursing. The purpose of this discussion is to explain how each pattern of knowing affects this author’s practice‚ and to identify the author’s preferred paradigm and provide justification for choosing this paradigm. Empirical knowing is based on the belief that what someone knows is objective
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Theory of knowledge | EVALUATE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF REASON AS A WAY OF KNOWING | Word Count: 1‚584 | | Reason is a priori. All humans are born with it. It is a way of knowing as it is used in every area of knowledge and in collaboration with the other ways of knowing. Unlike the implication of the prescribed essay topic‚ reason is not a distinctive way of knowing. To say that is an oversimplification of the complexity of knowing. Knowledge can only be obtained through the inextricably
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‘There can be no knowledge without emotion…’ (Arnold Bennett). Discuss the relationship between knowledge and emotion. Compare emotion with one other way of knowing. However‚ emotion can be an obstancle as a way of knowing. If a person only relies on emotion as a way of knowing‚ the knowledge he/she gains will be very limited as his/her feelings are different every moment. It is because when that person is in a good mood i.e. happy‚ he/she will be more mentally conscious and willing to gain knowledge
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2010 Ways of Knowing and their Importance Experts such as athletes‚ musicians‚ actors‚ surgeons‚ etc. have obtained knowledge which is difficult to describe in words and by language. These other ways of knowing‚ like perception‚ reason‚ and emotion play more important roles than language in allowing these experts to perform in their respective fields by gaining knowledge which cannot be passed on by words through their senses‚ emotional inspiration‚ and reasoning. A way of knowing which is essential
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The four ways of knowing presented by the IB are all based on our conscious mind whose mechanism is known to a certain extent. However intuition‚ memory and imagination are part of our unconscious mind whose functioning is not yet proven till date. Memory is the function of storing and recalling information gained from experience. Whereas‚ imagination is the process of forming new ideas or concepts of external data not present to our senses. For a notion to be proposed as a way of knowing‚ it needs
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