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Blogs related to Unit 1: Cognition and the Ethics of Emotions

Blog 1 Product-Oriented Human

Blog 1 Product-Oriented Human (Please only take part 3 and part 4 directly counted as the blog. Part 1, part 2 and footnotes serve as backgrounds and clarifications.)…

Addiction: The Cyclical Consequence of Poorly Evaluated Contextual Judgements

The nature of substance addiction is painfully elaborate and impenetrable. It is the all-consuming, overwhelming desire for a permanent sensation of euphoria; one that is unattainable through naturally-sourced…

Anger as a way to position yourself “one up”? Not for minority groups.

If you were to simply google Wake Forest, or something of that sort, all of these pages about the admissions process, how beautiful and diverse the campus is,…

Can Solomon’s Concept of Grief Help Explain Rap Lyrics?: A Look at Grief in Chicago Drill Rap

The musical genre of rap has recently taken the throne as the most popular genre in the United States (Serjeant 2018). However, rap is also well-known as the…

Who Does Love Actually Make Whole?: Exploring Identity Through the Lens of Romantic Love

When reading True to Our Feelings by Robert Solomon, I could not help but to be grabbed by the idea of a romantic couple coming to form a…

PROPAGANDA AND THE MEDIA– How Emotions Are Used to Subjugate Citizens in a Hierarchal Divide Between the Oppressed and Privileged

This picture of a child named Omar Daqneesh was taken in 2016 and was on the front page of many international newspapers after the bombing of Aleppo in…

Unpacking the cause of emotional disturbances among adopted children

The origins of emotions are constantly being studied by philosophers, scientists, psychologists, etc. With several proposed beliefs of “what an emotion is”, I find it difficult to give…