Emotion and Knowledge

1 Identify a personal knowledge claim, using emotion as a way of knowing.
2. Identify a global knowledge issue that includes emotion as part of the 'knowledge construct'.
3. Can there be 'correct' or 'appropriate' emotional responses? For example, is it correct to he horrified by accounts of torture?
4. Is the knowledge gained from an emotional construct influenced by culture? Are concepts such as patriotism and racism examples of collective emotions?

Answers:
1. I guess for me it would be dealing with death. When someone close to you dies, it's very emotion and have you put your knowledge to the test to try to understand something some complex yet as simple as dying. In my own personal experience losing my best friend would be a good example of emotion. It left me depressed and that was about the only emotion I showed for weeks, though inside being the knower that I am I was left still to this day thinking I knew about death but realizing even though I am a knower, I don't know very much. I know they put you in a box that's it, but what happens to you, some say heaven others say hell Are any of them real? I guess you'll never know until you die which leaves me I guess emotional because I worry that she may be in a worse place then here and not knowing leaves me even more emotional.

2. A global knowledge issue that constructs emotion is definitely the Arab-Israeli crisis, because of tension can is a emotion can be derived from human emotion. I think its a knowledge issue that causes so much emotional response because it's easy to solve, since both sides refuse to negotiate, their doomed to keep attacking each other which is leading to high tensions of the emotions of scared and anger throughout the Middle East because both sides are letting their emotions get the better of their knowledge thence leading to war.

3. For me as a knower I think that all emotional responses are correct for that particular person, though this is not the case for all cultures. For example people in the United States during the Cold War had a emotional response of fear for the longest time that the Russian's were going to nuke all major cities, once the Russians had placed the nuclear bombs in Cuba, while the the Americans had nuclear bombs on Turkey pointed directly at Moscow but the Russia people payed no attention and went on fearless of nuclear war (so history tells us).Though the American one seems more appropriate then the Russia response though either are correct nor wrong, because this is due location and cultures, I think that in this example emotional responses differ due to government. Americans live under democracy meaning the government doesn't control all media, leaving ways for media to slip in fearful messages to alter peoples perspectives and make them scared. While in Russia the people lived under a single party state meaning the government controls all media, which means it gives the power to hide these potential fearful things which doesn't alter the emotional responses of their people.

4. Yes because as I knower I feel knowledge and emotions go hand and hand which both are derived from what culture you are from. It has to be influenced by cultures because different cultures are brought up with different ethics and knowledges of things which would lead to different emotional responses. I don't think so, I think things like patriotism and racism are essentially peer pressure that people fall into but in doing so it unleashes collective emotions from everyone even if some of the people in the group don't believe in it.