Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on The Concept of Joy. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 5 page paper explores the emotion of joy as evaluated by Nel Noddings. Her book which contains a chapter on joy is discussed philosophically. No additional sources cited.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: RT13_SA218joy.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
joy is truly enlightening. To this author, joy is something that emanates from a sense of relatedness to another person or thing, and it is something that comes from caring
about someone or something other than ones self. One may want to relate this to the Christian idea of keeping ones mind off of ones own problems and on Christ.
In doing so, the self-centeredness that was perhaps hindering a heightened spiritually is gone. Similarly, the author recognizes the true rewards that come from caring, and calls such feelings joy.
Joy, to Noddings, is an emotion or an affect or a feeling. She tends to shy away from calling it an emotion, because emotion just is, and does not encompass
reflective thought. Yet, by the end of the chapter, she emphasizes that joy is indeed an emotion. Consequences of reflected thought are explored as in the anguish one feels at
certain realizations, but joy is also an accompaniment of recognizing relatedness. In other words, one may experience anguish when they realize how much they love another human being. What if
that husband or child dies? What if they get into serious trouble? What if they turn out to be a murderer? There is anguish all the time, but there is
also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sense of relatedness is really what is behind the emotion of joy. The author
probes deeper into aspects of joy and when it is likely to occur. It seems that it is more likely to occur in sweeping, unexpected ways and it is also
linked with a state of reflection. She speaks of the philosopher Sartre who separates joy into two entities which are joy-feeling and joy-emotion. Clearly, joy is more complex than many
...