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Full Idea
Feeling is the ornamentation of emotion, not its essence. ...For example, what is the difference in feeling between embarrassment and shame? …We may also experience an emotion like subdued anger or envy with no feeling.
Gist of Idea
Feeling is a superficial aspect of emotion, and may be indeterminate, or even absent
Source
Robert C. Solomon (The Passions [1976], 4.2)
Book Ref
Solomon,Robert C.: 'The Passions (1993 ed)' [Hackett 1993], p.97
A Reaction
This is very persuasive, and supports the idea that what matters in an emotion is its content, rather than its phenomenology. He adds later that we are often mistaken about our own emotions.
| 22510 | Some emotional states are too strong for human nature [Aristotle] |
| 23953 | Feeling is a superficial aspect of emotion, and may be indeterminate, or even absent [Solomon] |
| 20205 | The feeling accompanying curiosity is neither pleasant nor painful [Zagzebski] |
| 23968 | If reasons are seen impersonally (as just causal), then feelings are an irrelevant extra [Goldie] |
| 23969 | We have feelings of which we are hardly aware towards things in the world [Goldie] |
| 23984 | An emotion needs episodes of feeling, but not continuously [Goldie] |
| 24001 | Moods can focus as emotions, and emotions can blur into moods [Goldie] |