Complicar las emociones

Abstract

“Complicating Emotions”. Husserl’s phenomenological axiology is rooted in two claims by Brentano: (1) that we apprehend what is valuable in acts of emotion (Akte der Gemütsbewegung), and (2) that these emotive acts are grounded in “presentations.” This paper first summarizes Husserl’s appropriation of Brentano’s second claim, and then sketches some ways in which Husserl’s own analyses might be corrected and extended if we are to begin to account for the complexity of the emotions. The paper concludes
with some remarks about the moral significance of this more complex account of emotional experiences.