The melancholic and the choleric: two kind of emotional intellectuality

• Main Authors: María Josefa ROS VELASCO, Benjamín LARRIÓN RÁNDEZ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2017-12-01
• Series: Azafea: Revista de Filosofía
• Subjects: cognición, emoción, intelectual, historia de la filosofía, psicología del comportamiento, sociología.
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0213-3563/article/view/15153

In this paper, we will conduct a reformulation of the means of emotional representation in intellectuals according to the principles of cognitivism, searching for the existence of an emotional archetype distinct from the classical <em>melancholic</em>: the <em>choleric</em>. In both cases, we look to explore the emotions related to the melancholic and choleric temperament and propose a link between multiple sociological theories of knowledge, before ending with a reinterpretation of the famous metaphor of the bee and the spider as representations of the characteristic features of the choleric and the melancholic intellectual respectively.