---
title: 'The Emotions'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James McCosh'
date: 1880-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Philosophy (General)'
- 'Anthropology (Doctrine of Man)'
- 'Aesthetics'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 42'
- 'Philippians 4'
- 'Proverbs 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mccosh-1880-the-emotions
---

# The Emotions

James McCosh's The Emotions analyzes emotions as four elements—appetences, ideas (phantasms), conscious excitement, and organic affection—and classifies emotional types and aesthetics.

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