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    It is not the case that Emotions should be considered actions or roles rather than 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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    • 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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