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    Emotions should be considered actions or roles rather than passions

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    • 1.Emotions fulfill social functions
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    • 2.Phenomena that fulfill social functions are better characterized as actions or roles than as passions
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    • 1.Emotions characteristically arise involuntarily and resist direct volitional control, as James and Lange established in their physiological account.
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    • 2.Phenomena that are constitutively involuntary cannot be adequately re-described as actions without distorting their essential phenomenological character.
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    • 3.Therefore, the passivity of emotions is not a contingent feature to be overcome but a defining criterion that distinguishes them from genuine actions.
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    • 1.Fulfilling a social function is compatible with being a passion, as Hume demonstrated in showing that sympathy and pride serve social bonding while remaining affective states.
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    • 2.The inference from 'serves a social role' to 'is an action rather than a passion' commits a category error by conflating functional role with ontological kind.
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    The strand of social constructionism that is more germane to the Motivational Tradition is the “social role” strand, related to the thesis that emotions fulfill social functions by virtue of which they should be considered actions or roles rather than passions (see, e.g., Solomon 1976 and Averill 1990 on the “myth of passions”). Jean Paul Sartre (1939 [1948]) can be considered the first to offer a general, although idiosyncratic, theory of emotions as social roles, a view developed in the early
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