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Full Idea
Emotion is a phenomenon of belief. Consciousness does not limit itself to the projection of affective meanings upon the world around it; it lives the new world it has thereby constituted.
Gist of Idea
Emotions makes us believe in and live in a new world
Source
Jean-Paul Sartre (Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939], §III)
Book Ref
Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'Sketch for a Theory of Emotions' [Routledge 1994], p.51
A Reaction
There seems to be an implied anti-realism in this, since the emotions prevent us from relating more objectively to the world. The 'magic' seems to be compulsory.
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24013 | An emotion and its object form a unity, so emotion is a mode of apprehension [Sartre] |
24017 | Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World [Sartre] |
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24015 | Emotions makes us believe in and live in a new world [Sartre] |