Wouldn't it be a wondrous thing if, in the aftermath of our latest national tragedy, every rational, feeling member of the National Rifle Association were to follow the example of Senators Joe Manchin III and Mark Warner and call for a less rigid stance toward gun control?
Thus, the rational feeling of guilt motivates you to reflect on and change your behavior for the better.[6][7].
The safety and habitability of our shared home is intensely emotional terrain, triggering perfectly rational feelings of loss, fear and grief.
Although there are four generic emotions, there are only three rational feelings; they replace pleasure, desire, and fear.
In his discussion of how the virtuous person responds to weaknesses in others, Seneca extends the Stoic spectrum of rational feelings to include mercy (clementia).
The conceptions of good or rational feelings (i.e., the affective dispositions and reactions of the wise person) and proto-emotions render Stoic thought on the emotions less implausible than it is sometimes taken to be.
Many participants alluded to a dissonance between their intuitive and rational feelings, especially when there were conflicting media reports about evidence and ethical issues such as patient safety.
(Not that they are necessarily rational, as feelings are often not: there are survivors, Mr. Shoshani noted, who firmly believe that Wagner and Hitler actually met).
Moreover, the feelings that Kant sees as most crucial to moral motivation (respect for the moral law, respect for rational nature, moral feeling) are themselves rationally-grounded, reflecting the immediate effect of the moral law on our sensibility.
Emotions that might appear rational – such as feeling depressed about what a catastrophe your life is – stand exposed as the result of irrational thinking.
Your parents may have rational reasons for feeling the way they do.
