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Full Idea
One can be unreflectively emotionally engaged with the world, having feelings towards some object in the world, and yet at that moment not be reflectively aware of having those feelings.
Gist of Idea
We have feelings of which we are hardly aware towards things in the world
Source
Peter Goldie (The Emotions [2000], Intro)
Book Ref
Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.6
A Reaction
I'm thinking that we do not just await some 'object' to trigger a background feeling, because we always have feelings. They are the continuous shifting wallpaper of our mental dwellings - which we sometimes notice.
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