Emotions: a movement of the sense appetite toward a perceived good or away from a perceived evil that causes a physical response
Emotions motivate us to attain a good or to avoid an evil.
Ordinary emotions = good that is easy to obtain (desire, joy) or evil that is easy to avoid (disgust, sorrow).
Emergency emotions = good that is difficult to obtain or an evil that is difficult to avoid
We can experience emotions toward spiritual goods and evils when we know the good or evil through our intellect and choose to experience the emotion (using the will).
About Me
- Jeffrey
- I hold a Master of Theological Studies from the University of Dallas' Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies. God has called me to be a father and to teach, so I now serve through From the Abbey, my catechetical apostolate. Brother Thomas is the persona I created for the moral theology textbook Dear Brother Thomas.
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