It's scary to imagine how horrible human life could be without feelings. There would be no such concepts as love, tenderness, friendship, justice. Man would not know pleasure.
What are feelings and why are they needed?
Feelings are a person's attitude to reality, vivid emotional experiences. They are not given to a person from birth, feelings are formed with the development of consciousness, under the influence of upbringing, environment, art, family. Feelings are more intense in intensity than, for example, mood. The mood can be just good, but the feeling of joy and happiness captures the whole. However, unlike mood, feelings cannot last long. A person feels something under certain circumstances, or when recalling these circumstances. Most often, people know what causes certain feelings in them, for example, a long-awaited purchase, a scary movie, a well-done deal.
Feelings can be of various strengths and durations, they motivate human behavior, direct, showing what is important and what is not. Feelings also help in non-verbal communication: for example, if it is pleasant to see a person, a smile appears on the face, which is easily read by other people. Due to the huge variety of feelings, a person can enjoy all facets of our many-sided life.
Kinds of feelings
Feelings can be higher and lower. The lower feelings are associated with the satisfaction of biological needs - this is the feeling of hunger, satiety, muscle tension, pain. Higher feelings - moral, aesthetic and intellectual, are found only in humans.
Moral feelings express a person's attitude to other people and to their own behavior from the point of view of accepted norms. These are feelings of friendship and love, a sense of duty, guilt, envy, jealousy, shame. There are as many moral feelings as there are manifestations of relationships between people. The highest moral feeling that regulates human behavior is conscience.
Aesthetic feelings make you experience beauty. Only people have the desire to enjoy art, music, landscapes, architecture.
Intellectual senses reflect cognitive needs. These are the feelings that arise when thinking about the future, the meaning of life, the search for truth, a sense of mystery. The highest manifestation of intellectual feelings is the feeling of love for the truth, which becomes a need.
Feelings are always objective. They can be specific - love for a particular color, food, a particular person. Can be generalized - love in general for children, animals, music. And there are abstract feelings - for example, a sense of justice, pity, tragedy, duty.
