Research To The Theory And Significance Of Affective Thinking

Emotion, as regards this old topic, has been variedly discussed by human beings in thousands of years. Its development goes with human's thought from lower to higher class. Pure emotion or pure thought does not exist. In research of emotion matter, the way of thinking plays an important role. Making deeper research of the development of affective thinking is to achieve their mutual penetrate and integrate, in order to realize its theoretical value and practical significance. And it's particularly important when people increase emphasis on rational research of value. Due to the development of science and technology, human's socialization, symbolization, rationalization, toleration, and personalization also grows, and the problems that human faces are increasing as well. Among them, it's difficult to control human's spirit, psychology, and the way of thinking. In practice, it's still a blind spot so far by putting human's emotion experience and thinking activity together. At the same time, the expansion of the height, depth, abundance, durability of human's thinking puts forward new demands to the theory of rational understanding of affective thinking. In recent years, some experts and scholars already discussed about affective thinking and mentioned the function of affective thinking in some aspects, but it's only as a supplement to the description of them and that's far not deep enough. This thesis will starts from the source and research status quo to explore the nature and connotation of affective thinking, analyze their features and functions, grasp their relations with cognition, will, and aesthetics, and research their theoretical value and practical significance, in order to better play the positive effect of affective thinking, achieve the goal of human's harmony, and promote human to acknowledge and transform the world smoothly.Firstly,this thesis straits from the theoretical resource and research status quo to explore the nature and connotation of affective thinking. It mainly analyses from two aspects: affective thinking is a kind of emotional thinking; and affective thinking is the dialectical unity of emotional rationalization and rational emotional. And then it stands on the position of Marxism to define the theory of affective thinking.Secondly, this thesis reveals the features and functions of affective thinking by analyzing the formation process, development stage, state performance, and development dimension of their theory. Their features include the dialectical unity of stability and non-stability, logicality and non-logicality, convergence and divergence, insight and comprehensiveness, and demanding sameness and difference. And it systematically discuss the functions of affective thinking, including dynamic and enhancing function, controlling and selecting function, signal and leading function, infection and migration function, health and coordination function. This is the key of this thesis.Finally, this thesis explores the affective thinking's relations with cognition, will and aesthetics, and highlights the importance of affective thinking. It give full play of the positive functions of affective thinking, withhold their negative functions, in order to achieve their theoretical value and practical significance. It holds the dialectical unity of human's"truth, good and beauty", and realize their theoretical significance in world outlook and life outlook through correctly understanding the affective thinking's relations with cognition, will, and aesthetics. And it better improves the understanding of the relations between affective thinking, rationality and irrationality, intelligence and non-intelligence in the fields of logical thinking, emotion philosophy, cognition psychology, etc., better understands the epistemology of dialectical materialism, and achieves the dialectical unity of objective world and subjective world. Meanwhile, it can play affective thinking's guiding role to science and technology, art and literature, promote human's intellectual development and the friendly exchanges among different main bodies, and achieve the harmonious development among human, nature, society, and others, so that human can become perfect, comprehensive and free-development. That's the highlight of this thesis.Through correctly comprehensive usage, analysis and cognition, we know that changing and acquitting the world is a social process, we should explore the nature and change the world by making comprehensive use of noble, positive and beneficial to human's affective thinking, so that human can better improve itself and realize the self-value. Therefore, human, as a integrated existence, can not leave the guiding function of affective thinking theory, which has great driving force in human's practical activities all the time. It influences human's value view, life view and world view, makes human's spirit expanding, unify human's truth, good and beauty, continues human's emotion, charm of personality and spirit infectivity, better realizes human's complete ration and personality, and makes affective thinking's world full of enormous vitality.