Personal identity

So far, three clusters of emotions have been discussed as emergent commentaries, relating to our physical well-being, performative achievement and self-worth in the natural, practical and discursive orders respectively. Matters do not end there with a series of immutable first-order emotions, ranked as it were, simply by their relative intensity. They do not because of our human powers of reflexivity; our capacity to reflect upon our emotionality itself, to transform it and consequently to re-order priorities within our emotional sets. That there is some second-ordering process involved commands broad agreement. Thus Elster refers to it as ‘transmutation’, Greenwood as ‘transformation’ and Taylor as ‘transvaluation’, amongst those who have systematically dealt with second-order emotions. There the agreement ends, for two very different accounts are advanced about what the process of emotional revision entails. They turn out to have equal but opposite defects: one tends to rationalism (or rationalisation), whilst the other tends towards intuitivism

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  Open Access•Melanie S Archer•Reflexive Imperative in Late…•2012

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