Abstract

BUSTACARA, Alejandra Molano; SAAVEDRA, José Edwin Cuéllar  and  JIMENEZ, Miguel Ángel Pérez. Emotional integrity. How to be spiritual in a skeptical world. Hallazgos [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.29, pp.73-85. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2018.0029.03.

The theme of this work is spirituality in a secularized world. It is proposed that Solomon's theory of emotional integrity makes explicit a form of spirituality that does not make it dependent on religion. Thus, it is a good tool to understand spirituality in a world with several forms of religiosity, atheism and agnosticism. This spirituality assumes a cognitivist conception of the three emotions that are traditionally recognized as ethical and spiritual: happiness, gratitude and love. According to this conception, emotions in general are judgments and its content is an object evaluated in some way. These three emotions have other emotional states as intentional objects, that is why they are called "meta-emotions". Being spiritual involves an assessment of our life as a whole, affectionately evaluated from a specific present. As such, spirituality is the key to construct each person's meaning of life. Affective spirituality is within the framework of the emotional integrity theory. This theory states that human beings are capable of endless number of emotions. In this regard, the ability to have an integral affective life is the possibility to forge what we are, to face the challenges of life; it is how we construct the meaning of our own lives.

Keywords : spirituality; secularity; emotional integrity; cognitive theory; meaning of life.

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