1. Do Now Watch video and answer the following question
What are EMOTIONS?

2. Warm Up Questions
What do you think the role of emotion is in helping us to figure out the world? Can we trust emotion to provide us with reliable knowledge? What are its limitations?

3. Objective
“I can support my understanding of emotion with the ideas of other people.”

4. Primary emotions Psychologists distinguish six primary emotions:
happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust.

5. Can you recognize these emotions on the faces below?

6. Other Emtions
Which other, perhaps more complex, emotions can you think of?
Are your emotions innate or rather a product of the knowledge community you belong too?
Are emotions universal?

7. Emotional Olympians
Who do you think is happier?
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE

8. Read Article

9. Other people on emotion
Visit the quotes page for emotion in theoryofknowledge.net. What do they reveal about:
The extent to which emotion provides us with ‘true’ knowledge
Whether language can truly convey what emotion is
The relative importance of emotion and reason
The relationship between the arts and emotion
The importance of emotion in helping us to gain ethical knowledge

10. Development of ideas
Pick out one quote that particularly surprises you –
What insight into emotion does it provide you with?
Who said it, and what was their background?

11. Exit
Have the quotes made you rethink your initial ideas on the role of emotion in providing us with knowledge?