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Early modern philosophy has shown a great interest in the concept of emotions, starting with Aristotle, whose Rhetoric details an insightful theory of emotion which “in many ways anticipates contemporary theories” (Solomon 2003: 5). He argued that the nature of emotion lies in a strong moral belief about how others should behave, and involves the perception of a situation dominated by a desire. This is evidently shown in his analysis of anger where anger is characterized as the desire for revenge.
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The clearer version of Russell’s Circumplex Model appears in Posner et al. (2005).
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The figure is taken from Desmet and Hekkert (2007).
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Lee, S.Y. (2019). Towards a Linguistic Theory of Emotion and Expression of Emotion. In: Emotion and Cause. Studies in East Asian Linguistics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6194-3_1
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