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Solomon says that emotions are judgments that, like many judgments, are not necessarily deliberative, articulated, or reflective. If so, why do we feel that emotions \u201ccome on\u201d us? Solomon explains that it\u2019s because we focus \u201con the feelings and flushings that typically accompany our emotional upheavals in times of crisis.\u201d He calls this a \u201cstrategic confusion of cause and effect\u201d that reduces to \u201ca vehicle of irresponsibility, a way of absolving oneself from blame for those fits of sensitivity and foolishness that constitute the most important moments of our lives.\u201d <\/p>\n
In a footnote, he elaborates with a contrast between Nietzsche and Christianity, taking an uncharacteristic stand against the former: \u201cfor once, we must violently disagree with [Nietzsche] and defend an insight of Christian psychology that has too long been lost under the metaphysics of its theology,\u201d the insight concerning the \u201cvoluntariness of the emotions\u201d and that \u201ca man is responsible not only for what he does but for what he \u2018feels\u2019 as well.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Solomon says that emotions are judgments that, like many judgments, are not necessarily deliberative, articulated, or reflective. If so, why do we feel that emotions \u201ccome on\u201d us? Solomon explains that it\u2019s because we focus \u201con the feelings and flushings that typically accompany our emotional upheavals in times of crisis.\u201d He calls this a \u201cstrategic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"yoast_head":"\n