This paper addresses a recent puzzle in the ethics of emotions concerning the fitting duration of emotions. On the one hand, many of our emotions tend to fade with time and can seem to do so fittingly. Think of attitudes like anger, grief, and regret. On the other hand, it's difficult to see how it could be fitting for these feelings to fade since the facts that make them fitting can seem to persist. This is the puzzle in brief; that of explaining how certain feelings can fittingly fade with time. This paper argues that this puzzle has no general solution: in a wide range of true-to-life cases our fitting feelings remain fitting forever, until the day that we die. I conclude by exploring the normative significance of this result and its implications for the ethics of attitudes more generally.

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永远贴切的感情

本文解决了情感伦理学中最近关于情感持续时间的一个难题。一方面，我们的许多情绪往往会随着时间的推移而消退，而且似乎这样做很恰当。想想愤怒、悲伤和遗憾等态度。另一方面，很难看出这些感觉如何消失是合适的，因为使它们合适的事实似乎仍然存在。这是一个简单的谜题；解释某些感觉如何随着时间而适当地消失。本文认为，这个难题没有通用的解决方案：在各种真实的生活案例中，我们的合适感觉永远保持合适，直到我们死去的那一天。最后，我探讨了这一结果的规范意义及其对更广泛的态度伦理学的影响。