La educación sentimental. O de la difícil cohabitación de razones y emociones

Abstract

Traditionally, philosophy has confronted difficulties to cope with emotions from the view of rationality. Notwithstanding, there are contexts that claim an emotional sense in the rational evaluation. This sort of contexts are for example the life projects extending over an apreciable fragment of a life-time. We can say of them that an afective failure is also a failure of rationality. In this paper we propose an account of emotions as a special sort or representations, i.e., as descriptive-directive representations. That analysis will allow us to see more carefully the relationships between reasons and emotions.