Appropriate Emotions

情绪反应可以是恰当的，也可以是不恰当的；感觉喜悦在朋友的成功中是合适的，而不是以他们的失败为乐是合适的。但是什么让情绪变得合适呢？我将提出，当情绪准确地代表其对象的价值时，情绪是合适的，并将通过考察情绪价态(情绪是积极的还是消极的)和情绪理性来支持这一观点。鉴于情感在我们正常生活中的中心地位，这种对它们的逻辑特征的调查，以及它们是合适还是不合适的，将对道德哲学产生重大影响。

Emotional responses can be appropriate or inappropriate; it is appropriate to feel joy at a friend's success, inappropriate to take a pleasure in their failure. But what makes emotions appropriate? I will suggest that emotions are appropriate when they are accurately represent the value of their objects , and will support this view by examining emotional valence (the idea that emotions are positive or negative) and emotional rationality. Given the centrality of the emotions to our normal lives, this investigation of their logical character, and of what it is for them to be appropriate or inappropriate, will have significant implications for moral philosophy.