From the point of view of computational theory, the prevailing wind, backed by both evolutionary speculation and neurological findings on control systems and relatively independent affect-programs, has tended to favour modular conceptions of emotion rather than holistic ones.
Because of the breadth of the topic, this article can offer only an overview, but perhaps it will be enough to give some idea how philosophically rich and challenging the conception of the emotions was in this period.
He gives a wonderful conception of his suppressed emotions and in every gesticulation or expression he brings out that sympathy for the wayward Sadie Thompson.The settings for this film are adroitly fashioned.
This conception of love as a primordial emotion is something like Descartes' view in Passions of the Soul, §79: "Love is an emotion of the soul caused by a movement of the spirits, which impells the soul to join itself willingly [de volonté] to objects that appear to be agreeable to it".
Harris adheres to a rationalist conception of ethics, according to which emotions should only be acted upon through cognitive means, and, as described by Baertschi, "reason furnishes the only genuine moral motives" ([ 50]: 66).
Children need to pick up on cues in their environment in order to form a conception of how they should behave, which emotions to experience and when and how to express these emotions.
The term ṭarab, which designates a whole scale of emotions, characterizes the musical conception of the time and even came to mean music itself.
Despite the inherent fascination of the subject and the plausibility of Wollheim's conception of it, I found "On the Emotions" both tedious and unconvincing.
But the linguistic and logical conceptions popular among English-speaking philosophers since World War II may not be well suited to the analysis of emotion.
