Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
"Inside Out was, I think, the most powerful revision of how we think about emotion for 2000 years. From Plato to Kant, we have thought about emotions as disruptive dysfunctional irrational processes, and we should suppress them. And Inside Out comes along and says they are the very foundation of story and relationships and purpose in life."
-Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology and director of UC Berkeley’s Interaction Lab and Center for Greater Good. He also served as a scientific adviser for Inside Out 1&2.
This might be a bit far-fetched or narrow but from the lenses of moral philosophy; I think the movie somewhat positions itself close to "virtue ethics"; it puts "having these *feelings* at the right times and in the right way" as the proper virtue.
Supporting this idea, at the end of the movie we see a twinkly link appearing between the persona of Joy and the controller board, I think this refers to the "practical wisdom" (Ancient Greek: φρόνησῐς, romanized:…