Expressionism Philosophy Questions

Vincent Van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1888, Van Gogh Museum      Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893 National Gallery Oslo Norway       Willem de Kooning, Woman V (1952–53), National Gallery of Australia

3.  When you experience an emotion, is it “directed” at a particular person or thing? Give an example of an emotion and how it relates to something outside of you.  Are there, on the other hand, some emotions that are not so directed to something external to you?  Give an example.  [Hint:  Consider happiness.  Can you just be happy or do you have to be happy about something?  If the latter, then happiness has what philosophers call “an object,” whatever you are happy about. What about anxiety, an emotion that many philosophers think is especially significant?]

 

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