Gratitude Is Only Fittingly Targeted Towards Agents

The paper argues that ‘All varieties of gratitude are only overall fitting when targeted towards agents,’ for instance any variety the beautiful sunset is if a supernatural agent such as God exists. first premise ‘Prepositional agents.’ For this premise, intuitive judgments offered. second paradigmatic gratitude.’ an aspect common consent philosophers about noted and metaphysical basicness prepositional argued for. This gives intermediate conclusion ‘The fourth ‘If agents, then all To supply conditional Paradigmatic Fittingness Principle offered, which states ‘Paradigmatic emotions set fittingness conditions their non-paradigmatic varieties.’ principle by noting it vindicates some popular plausible judgements error theory why one might think could be fittingly non-agents, suggesting absence other source emotions.