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Sabine Doring on Emotion

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The Value of Emotions in Philosophy

I think most philosophers have a theory of the emotions. It's characteristic of analytic philosophy that they just dismiss the emotions because it's very complicated to say what an emotion is. I think this is the reason why they were neglected since the beginning of the 20th century, but now they are really celebrating a renaissance. For instance, in pride, normally you are proud of yourself. And your example of a jealous husband, the point is that he's not feeling jealous all the time, but in certain situations when his wife talks to other men, he acts in a particularly jealous way. Yes, it's action, but it's also feeling if he never felt or experienced jealousy, he would not

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