Download or read book Evaluating Emotions written by Eva-Maria Düringer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are emotions related to values? This book argues against a perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as perception-like states that help us gain evaluative knowledge, and argues for a caring-based theory of emotions, which sees emotions as felt desires or desire satisfactions, both of which arise out of caring about something.