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  2. Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia

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    is fallacious, because the suffering of the children and our emotional perception of the badness of suffering is not relevant to the conclusion (to be sure, the proper role, if any, for emotion in moral reasoning is a contested issue in ethics). Appeals to emotion are intended to cause the recipient of the information to experience feelings ...

  3. Emotivism - Wikipedia

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    Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes. [1] [2] [3] Hence, it is colloquially known as the hurrah/boo theory. [4]

  4. Moral emotions - Wikipedia

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    Moral reasoning has been the focus of most study of morality dating back to Plato and Aristotle.The emotive side of morality, worked by Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, has been looked upon with disdain, as subservient to the higher, rational, moral reasoning, with scholars like Immanuel Kant, Piaget and Kohlberg touting moral reasoning as the key forefront of morality. [7]

  5. Category:Appeals to emotion - Wikipedia

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    Fallacies based on arguing for or against a proposition on emotional grounds. Pages in category "Appeals to emotion" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.

  6. Emotional reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Emotional reasoning is a cognitive process by which an individual concludes that their emotional reaction proves something is true, despite contrary empirical evidence. Emotional reasoning creates an 'emotional truth', which may be in direct conflict with the inverse 'perceptional truth'. [ 1 ]

  7. Stratification of emotional life (Scheler) - Wikipedia

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    The practical significance of Scheler's Stratification of Emotional Life is obvious in several respects and points of view. First, Scheler seems to be making a case in favor of what we might refer to today as Emotional Intelligence, as a portal to more ethical behavior and optimum personal development, similar to the ancient Greek concern for promoting virtuous character. [3]

  8. Persuasion - Wikipedia

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    According to Burke, effective persuasion is not merely about logical argumentation or emotional appeal but about creating a sense of shared identity and values between the speaker and the audience. In Burke’s view, persuasion works when the audience feels a connection or alignment with the speaker's perspective, thus making the message more ...

  9. Rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    His definition of rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion", essentially a mode of discovery, limits the art to the inventional process; Aristotle emphasizes the logical aspect of this process. A speaker supports the probability of a message by logical, ethical, and emotional proofs.