{"id":2557,"date":"2020-02-23T20:55:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/?page_id=2557"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:47:30","slug":"gould-exercise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/rhe-330e-pathos\/197-2\/gould-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Gould Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Gould describes dissolving into tears while reading her research data for this project, she\u2019s suggesting that there is <strong>no escape from an affective involvement<\/strong> in the world. No off-switch. Affective intensities <em>saturate<\/em> meaning-making, even when one attempts to be &#8220;objective.&#8221; The prevalent, post-Enlightenment belief that emotion and reason are opposites, she argues, is just simplistic and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Aristotle had the tendency to talk about emotions in an overly cognitive way, but he already understood that emotions were themselves rational. Modern neuroscience has gone further: they\u2019ve shown that reason itself becomes impossible when the areas of the brain that process emotion are damaged. Rational decisions <em>require<\/em> emotional input. According to both Hawhee and Gould, reason and emotion are not opposites but interconnected effects of a larger affective involvement in the world.<\/p>\n<p>EXERCISE<\/p>\n<p>In groups of 3-4:<\/p>\n<p>1. Define each of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ontology<\/li>\n<li>Rationalist ontology (pages 18 and 25)<\/li>\n<li>Affective ontology (pages 23, 25, 29, 31)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. What does Gould mean by \u201cemotional habitus\u201d (pages 10, 22, 31, 32, 34-36)?<\/p>\n<p>3. How does Gould distinguish between affect, emotion, and feeling(s) (pages 18-22)<\/p>\n<p>4. Explain in your own words the three \u201cimportant insights\u201d Gould says may be gleaned from an affective ontology (pages 25-29):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The complexity and indeterminacy of human motivation and behavior (25-26)<\/li>\n<li>Social reproduction and social change (26-27)<\/li>\n<li>Movements and meaning-making (28-29)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Gould describes dissolving into tears while reading her research data for this project, she\u2019s suggesting that there is no escape from an affective involvement in the world. No off-switch. Affective intensities saturate meaning-making, even when one attempts to be &#8220;objective.&#8221; The prevalent, post-Enlightenment belief that emotion and reason are opposites, she argues, is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":197,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2557\/revisions\/2564"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}