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God and Emotion Part 1, The Impassibility Debate, Emotions, Morality, and Truth

The Reluctant Theologian Podcast

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What's Happening in the News Right Now?

Your emotions are evaluations of the situation. So you evaluate the glass, like might not be a moral issue but when i like talk about the news, example, that you should be outraged by what's happening in the news is usually a moral claim. And so there is this relationship between truth and your emotions. Your emotions are subject to being true or false. They aresubject to correction. They are subject to accurately representing the world. This wis, now, where morality comes into play is because your emotions are evaluation of the situations. The idea is that if your emotion is not properly tracking what's going on in reality, then your emotion isn't really true. It's not really truly

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