CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Vahid |
|---|---|
| Title | Making Democracy feel: An Exploration into Emotional Politics and Politics of Emotion |
| Summary | This thesis aims to provide an account of how politics affects and is affected by emotion. It comprises normative arguments in favor of the positive role emotions can play in a democratic order. Bringing up anger, as an example of negative emotion, this thesis challenges the widespread view that, due to its counter-productive consequences, anger is not a proper emotion to be expressed in the public sphere. Though in some cases dissociative, this thesis argues that the public expression of anger also has an intrinsic value. Therefore, overemphasizing the consequentialist considerations and overlooking the inherent moral value of the public expression of anger might run the risk of reducing a moral conflict to a mere practical problem. To address the consequentialist and non-consequentialist debate about the public expression of anger, I propose to set the public expression of apt anger as a moral baseline. Then, to expound the meaning of the apt anger, I will provide a normative framework to distinguish ideal anger from non-ideal ones. |
| Supervisor | Miklosi, Zoltan |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/moftakhari_vahid.pdf |
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