Research Paper on:
Joy Concept

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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