Write a 700-1000 word paper analyzing an emotional experience. The experience can be your own or that of another person. The experience should be one involving intense emotions such as self-defeating anger, anxiety, guilt, depression. Your analysis should identify and examine:
1. The elements of the emotional experience (emotional objects, bodily feelings, replaying of bodily feelings, behavioral changes, emotional reasoning).
2. The particular emotion/s in question (anger, guilt, anxiety, etc.) using the E=O + R formula (See examples of such definitions of emotions in your text, p. 8.)
3. The emotional reasoning. Formulate this reasoning using the standard form of emotion reasoning:
If O then R
O
So, R
For example, say O = my friend lied to me; and R = He is a rotten person. Then the emotional reasoning would be:
If my friend lied to me then he’s a rotten person
My friend lied to me
So, he’s a rotten person
(See reading on “Emotional Reasoning
” and your text, pp. 14-17, for further details).
4. Identify any fallacies in the premises (refer to chapters 2-4 in your text, the definitions contained in  Cardinal Fallacies, and your scanning records in Tell Walter);   5.  Show how to refute these fallacies, that is, discuss why they are irrational.
6. Discuss how the situation leading to the emotion/s in question might have been more rationally managed using the theory of guiding virtues and other philosophical insights gleaned from the course (see discussions of guiding virtues in your text, chapters 2-4, and the link Guiding (Transcendent) Virtues.
7. Discuss a plan of action based on these philosophical insights.

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