Single Idea 24015

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions]

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 Reference

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.