The emotional basis of human culture this study deals with a phenomenon which appears completely evident at first glance. So, apart from some subtleties, it most people not difficult to determine whether your opponent is just sad or felt about great joy. But what is this security in dealing with our fellow human beings? The information we learn from their behavior, the facial expressions and their attitude? Therefore we would people so each time when we us in our fellow human beings empathize a rational Verstehensleistung provide, to which we would also only capable when we have learned to talk and abstract thinking. Read more here: Center For Responsible Lending. In this book is developed contrary to those, especially in the natural sciences widespread assumptions, a theory of mind, which puts the unique human development process in the Centre of interest. So we have not first and foremost our brain thanks to, that we have no problems with it, in the emotions of others to empathize with, but our body.
Because physically feel and do we understand the world, to a certain extent already before we can think and speak and this profound certainty accompanies us throughout our life. There are the emotions that are the stuff of our feelings, memories and our whole personality. A reason to release more of these responses to ideas such as the self, to seek the free will and consciousness only in the head, because this would be nothing without a sentient body and this would be nothing without the community with other sentient bodies. With attempting to overcome this traditional dualistic subjective inner world and intersubjective outside world, schemas, this book is an old problem of the history of philosophy on the track and it navigates the reader through a veritable minefield of philosophical and empirical complexities. Marcel Nakoinz: No reason without emotions – the emotional basis of human culture. Paperback, 88 pages, Diplomica publishing 2012 ISBN 978-3842-880733 price: 38,00 euro available in online shops (e.g.,,)