Emotions as dangerous, disruptive, and symptoms of dis-ease: Socrates/Plato and early Greek perspectives
Emotions as sinful, signs of the Fall, and impediments to salvation: Philo and early Christian theologians' perspectives
Emotions as functional for physiological survival: Darwin and evolutionary science
Emotions as pathological, signs of dysfunction, and indicators of need: Sigmund Freud and depth psychology
Emotions as relational and sociocultural artifacts: challenges to natural scientific understandings
Emotions as psychological constructions in context: recent neuroscientific discoveries
Emotions as crucial: emotions and human flourishing.