Is there a difference between feelings and emotions?
I think emotions are innate, as they are always instinctively roused even when the cause of their arousal is not purely instinctive, but intellectual rational and experiential, for example learning activities of our higher brain. This can be easily instantiated that we feel anger when treated disrespectfully, hate when we encounter something we dislike and fear when we come face to face with danger; anger, hate and fear, among many others, are not feelings but emotions that we feel. We could also feel emotions of love, admiration, wonder and excitement, when we witness something of great value, charm and beauty for instance. Then it is only human to feel thankfulness, gratitude and remorse, for instance. You may have noticed that in above paragraphs I used the word ‘emotions’ as the noun and the word ‘feel’ as the verb. This in part is in fact the answer to your question. As I understand that emotions as part of human nature are seated within our mind permanently, where they never chan
