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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / d. Emotional feeling

[phenomenal experience of emotions]

7 ideas
Some emotional states are too strong for human nature [Aristotle]
Feeling is a superficial aspect of emotion, and may be indeterminate, or even absent [Solomon]
The feeling accompanying curiosity is neither pleasant nor painful [Zagzebski]
If reasons are seen impersonally (as just causal), then feelings are an irrelevant extra [Goldie]
We have feelings of which we are hardly aware towards things in the world [Goldie]
An emotion needs episodes of feeling, but not continuously [Goldie]
Moods can focus as emotions, and emotions can blur into moods [Goldie]