Full Idea
The process of teaching a child how to identify things which are dangerous is typically one and the same process as teaching that child when fear is merited. ...'Dangerous' is an evaluative property, meriting a certain sort of response.
Gist of Idea
Learning an evaluative property like 'dangerous' is also learning an emotion
Source
Peter Goldie (The Emotions [2000], 2 'Education')
Book Reference
Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.30
A Reaction
I like this, because it shows the unity between our inner life and our experience of the external world. Concepts and emotions are usually responses, rather than private initiatives.