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takes to be innate, and "secondary emotions," in which feelings allow people to form
"systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and
primary emotions, on the other."
Daniel Goleman and other investigators have researched what is entailed in the
abilities to manage one's own and other people's emotions .
Apart from the common western views as described above, also traditional systems
such as Buddhist psychology survived for thousands of years with treasuries of experiential
knowledge, but are often disregarded because of their subjective approach. However,
exactly the aspect of introspection is extremely valuable for psychology - as long as we
have no machines which can actually show us thoughts and thought processes, a certain
level of subjectiveness is unavoidable.
Text 3. Des tiny
Destiny concerns the fixed natural order of the universe. It is the invincible necessity
to which even the gods must accede, as the Sibyl of Delphi confessed. Destiny is fate,
personified in Greek culture by the three Moirae (called the Parcae by the Romans), with a
Nordic counterpart in the three Norns. The "doom of the powers" in Norse mythology is
Ragnarok the battle which even Odin must inevitably face, at the end of the world.
Destiny is the irresistible power or agency that is conceived of as determining the
future, whether in general or of an individual. The remorseless goddess Nemesis for early
Greeks like Homer personified the pitiless distribution of fortune, neither good nor bad,
simply in due proportion to each according to his deserts. In the time of the Hellenistic
monarchies, after the death of Alexander the Great, the image of Tyche, crowned with a
mural crown of city walls, embodied the fortunes of a city, which struggled to keep afloat in
the chaotic violence among the Successors, as Alexander's heirs were called.
On an individual or even a national level, destiny is a predetermined state or condition
foreordained by the Divine or by human will (for e xa mple, in Manifes t Destiny). Destiny is
the human lot in life. It has taken the function of its Old English counterpart "doom", as in
the Domesday Book that took a census of England for the Normans in 1086, "doom" having
taken on foreboding ominous connotations of the universal cataclysm at the end of time.
Destiny is a source of irony in Greek tragedy, as it is in the Schiller play that Verdi
transformed into La Forza del Destino ("The Force of Destiny") or Thornton Wilder's The

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