Strawson's reactive attitudes are grounded in the demand for goodwill, meaning the cognitive recognition of ill will is what triggers the reactive stance, not the emotion independently.

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Cognitive recognition(as how we detect someone's ill will toward us): The act of consciously understanding or identifying something through thought, rather than just feeling it emotionally.
Ill will(as a motivation behind behavior): A hostile or mean-spirited intention toward someone; wanting to harm or disrespect them.
Reactive stance(as the emotional response that gets triggered): The position or attitude we take when we respond emotionally to someone based on how they've treated us.
Strawson: # Strawson Peter Strawson was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for challenging the traditional view that all meaningful statements must be either true or false. He argued that some statements—like "The present King of France is bald"—are neither true nor false because they fail to properly refer to anything that exists. His work fundamentally changed how philosophers think about language, meaning, and logic.

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