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Crisp, Virginia

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“…The preeminence of positive emotions within the New Testament is significant and yet is less studied in contrast to Christ's pain and suffering and the negative emotions associated with his life and the lives of his followers. Just like for the Hebrew bible, focused study on specific positive emotions is uncommon in contemporary theology (Crisp, 2015). The primary focus of this section will be on of the emotion of joy, one of the most frequent positive emotions in the New Testament.…”

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Rethinking self-transcendent positive emotions and religion: Insights from psychological and biblical research.

Cappellen

2017

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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At the heart of many religious and spiritual traditions is the aspiration to transcend the self to achieve a sense of connectedness with the world and/or with a Higher Power and to serve the greater good. Recent research suggests that the emergence of such self-transcendence can be facilitated by specific uplifting emotions termed self-transcendent positive emotions (STPEs); STPEs are short, positive responses to witnessing instances of beauty or good outside the self. The author reviews the defining characteristics of STPEs and the related current empirical research in psychology. Next, still building upon research in psychology, she examines how they are intertwined with spirituality and religion (beliefs and practices) and serve important functions when experienced in a religious context. The emerging biblical research on how positive emotions are constructed in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament is the studied, and how the religious context may modify the interpretation and phenomenological experience of positive emotions is discussed. Future avenues for research include the study of the specific emotion of joy and a better consideration of emotion's embodiment.

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“…Joy is not presented as self-generated, or as able to be created out of one's own effort (Wright, 2015). Instead, joy is passed to the people and is rooted in the joy of God (Crisp, 2015). That people often feel joy "in" God is inherently other-focus.…”

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Rethinking self-transcendent positive emotions and religion: Insights from psychological and biblical research.

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2017

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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“…A classic formulation of the objection compares the life of Haydn with that of an oyster (Crisp 1997(Crisp , 2006a, but, the example dates back to the Socratic dialogue Philebus):…”

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“…Crisp 1997;Feldman 2002;Bramble 2016a). This objection is older than the experience machine objection (see for example Mill 1871).…”

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Is pleasure all that is good about experience?

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2018

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Experientialist accounts of wellbeing are those accounts of wellbeing that subscribe to the experience requirement. Typically, these accounts are hedonistic. In this article I present the claim that hedonism is not the most plausible experientialist account of wellbeing. The value of experience should not be understood as being limited to pleasure, and as such, the most plausible experientialist account of wellbeing is pluralistic, not hedonistic. In support of this claim, I argue first that pleasure should not be understood as a broad term to describe valuable experiences generally. I then analyze responses to the main argument against a monistic view on the value of experience: the philosophy of swine objection. I argue that such responses deviate from the central hedonistic view that only pleasure and pain matter for wellbeing. I then argue that the argument can be avoided on a pluralistic account, and formulate a plausible candidate for an account of pluralistic experientialism, in which, besides pleasure, non-hedonic aspects of experience like novelty, compassion, and aesthetic value also contribute to wellbeing.

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Is pleasure all that is good about experience?

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