The essay contributes to the philosophical literature on emotions by advancing a detailed analysis of jadedness and by investigating whether jadedness can be subject to the various standards that are often thought to apply to our emotional states. The essay argues that jadedness is the affective experience of weariness, lack of care, and mild disdain with some object, and that it crucially involves the realisation that such an object was previously, but is no longer, significant to us. On the basis of such a characterisation, jadedness is shown to be an affective call to restructure our commitments and values in a manner that we no longer assign any kind of significance to its object. Precisely because of its potential to affect our lives in such a fashion, jadedness is shown to carry philosophical, psychological, and even social importance.

这篇文章通过推进对厌倦的详细分析，并通过调查厌倦是否可以服从通常被认为适用于我们情绪状态的各种标准，为关于情绪的哲学文献做出了贡献。这篇文章认为，厌倦是对某些物体的疲倦、缺乏关心和轻度蔑视的情感体验，它至关重要地涉及到这样一个物体以前对我们来说不再重要但不再重要的认识。基于这样的特征，厌倦被证明是一种情感呼唤，以一种我们不再赋予其对象任何重要性的方式来重组我们的承诺和价值观。正是因为它有可能以这种方式影响我们的生活，厌倦被证明具有哲学、心理学甚至社会的重要性。