Unknown: “Just because you feel an emotion based on something true, doesn’t mean that the emotion is reasonable”
I’m not really sure what it means for an emotion to be “reasonable”. Suppose you successfully create a thriving internet startup company and make a lot of money. Is it “reasonable” to feel happy about that?
This whole discussion flirts with the hard problem of moral realism vs. antirealism. For, if you could give a convincing rational answer to the question “what is it reasonable to feel happy about?”, you would have a realist theory of ethics.
Unknown: “Just because you feel an emotion based on something true, doesn’t mean that the emotion is reasonable”
I’m not really sure what it means for an emotion to be “reasonable”. Suppose you successfully create a thriving internet startup company and make a lot of money. Is it “reasonable” to feel happy about that?
This whole discussion flirts with the hard problem of moral realism vs. antirealism. For, if you could give a convincing rational answer to the question “what is it reasonable to feel happy about?”, you would have a realist theory of ethics.