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“If we pause to consider any emotional response from love to fear to rage, we can notice that implicit in every response is a dual value judgment. Every emotion reflects the judgment of ‘for me’ or ‘against me’—and also ‘to what extent.’ Thus, emotions differ according to their content and according to their intensity. Strictly speaking, these are not two separate value judgments; they are integral aspects of the same judgment and are experienced as one response … Every emotion contains an inherent action tendency; that is, an impetus to perform some action related in that particular emotion. The emotion of fear is a person’s response to that which threatens his or her values; it entails the action tendency to avoid or flee from the feared object.”Share
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