Emociones y su relación con la política: un análisis desde Martha Nussbaum.

Abstract

Emotions are transcendental in the political sphere due to identifying with the other subject at the moment, cooperating with each other to achieve common goals, for example, empathy is manifested as a cognitive ability that a subject possesses to understand the situation of other people. In this way, the needs and emotions of the subjects are understood, in order to put themselves in their place and respond to situations, common goals are met and goals of nations are also built. The present work, through bibliographic analysis, analyzes the functions of emotions in politics from the perspective of the philosopher Martha Nussbaum. In addition, it theoretically specifies the relationship of change about the irrational conception of emotions and politics in terms of decision-making, and describes the cognitive-evaluative character of emotions and what role it plays in politics, and once this is understood, seeks to expose the characteristics of political emotions and their relationship with eudemonia. For this analysis, a method of analysis and synthesis of bibliographic material and social examples in the political field is used.