The Importance of Feeling in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads

[@cryptic8043]

Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards speaks of this emotional knowldge as well. One of the most fascinating topics is the study of Appetites or Aesthetics which focus on how we develop tastes or appetites for the beautiful or God.

[@LitProf]

Edwards does not mean the same thing as Wordsworth. The affections are not the feelings (or emotions). Cf. www.cambridge.org/core/books/from-passions-to-emotions/9E152739407029F882D0384D0670E49F

[@cryptic8043]

@@LitProf Edwards in religious affections, links feelings to appetite or taste. At one point, he uses the term, "emotional knowledge". For example, he says, that a person who has seen honey but never has eaten any of it, and a second person who has seen, touch, and eat some of it. The former can only have knowledge when he recalls honey. But, the latter has emotional knowledge because he remembers what honey is, and can feel in his senses what honey is, which may repulse him or cause him pleasant feelings of sweetness. Where do you see that Edwards separated emotions from feelings? Especially in his book, Religious Affections.

[@LitProf]

I am not critiquing Edwards, I am suggesting he has a slightly different understanding of the passions (he has a Classical education) than the modern evangelical influenced by Romanticism and secular psychology.

[@cryptic8043]

@@LitProf I understand what you are saying. I was asking where do you see that he made that distinction in Religious Affections.

[@LaraKhurana]

Will be very useful before I begin romanticism

[@jimsteele9559]

You would think Erikson’s model would be stressed not Maslow, what with all the stress on identity. Erickson is interesting and not just for adolescence. Maslow I always felt weak. Yes, the identity intersectionality theory, CRT is destructive. I don’t believe that destruction is not on purpose.

[@TheLookingGlassAU]

If you self author or self define does that lead to the abolition of the concept of objective evil? I find the addicted, manipulative or deviant person has an inexhaustible ability to justify their own evil.

[@LitProf]

I think that is astutely observed. The eighteenth century often depicted the nightmare scenario of solipsism, but this is another obvious possibility.