Some philosophers have claimed that emotions are states of mind where an object is taken seriously. Seriousness, as this paper understands it, involves both a phenomenological change in attention and non-indifference towards an object. The paper investigates how contemporary theories of emotion can explain the seriousness of emotion. After rejecting explanations based on feeling, desire, and concern, the paper argues that the seriousness of an emotion can be explained as the manifestation of a concern in an outwardly directed feeling. Given the lack of competing explanations, seriousness probably must be explained this way. This argument shows how emotional feelings constitutively depend on desires, and why desires are essential ingredients to emotion.

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担忧和情绪的严重性

一些哲学家声称，情绪是认真对待对象的心理状态。正如本文所理解的，严肃性包括注意的现象学变化和对对象的非冷漠。该论文调查了当代情绪理论如何解释情绪的严重性。在拒绝基于感觉、欲望和关注的解释之后，该论文认为情绪的严重性可以解释为关注在外向感觉中的表现。鉴于缺乏相互竞争的解释，可能必须以这种方式解释严重性。这个论点表明情感如何在本质上依赖于欲望，以及为什么欲望是情感的重要组成部分。