Tok Can We Ever Know Anything Purely Through Emotion How...

In my opinion I do not think that we can know anything purely through emotion because emotions are â€Å"reactions or responses related to sense perceptions, internal states, thoughts or beliefs about things or people, real or imagined.† (Emotion as a WOK, Mondelli) Also emotions without the other three areas of knowledge emotions would have no way of expression because to be able to recognize what you feel you have to have logic and reason. To be able to feel your emotions you have to have your sense perception. To be able to say what you feel to yourself and other people around you have to know the correct language and be able to communicate those feelings and emotions. However some people may argue that you can know things purely through†¦show more content†¦The effectiveness of playing those recordings with the carefully chosen words and phrases in them to bring together his ideals eventually lead to Jim Jones having full control over his congregation; so much so that he was able to convince almost near one thousand of his followers to commit mass suicide. The Emotions that his language invoked in his followers gave him power beyond belief. Language plays a very important role in how we interpret, understand and control our emotions or in the case of the Jonestown people relinquish control of their emotions due to the use of persuasive language. Also another example of how language plays a major role in emotion is in literature, more specifically poetry. In John Donne’s poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning the language that he uses creates a very light and open feeling inside of me when I read it. It sounds very elegant and beautiful to read and makes me feel very happy inside. â€Å"Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so 2 As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix d foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th other foot,