ABSTRACT
Humans strive for happiness and for avoiding misery in a capricious world that all too often fails to conform to their plans and wishes. Thus emotion is at the core of human existence. However, rather than having been afforded the center stage position that it deserves in psychology, it has been viewed with skepticism. From the ancient Greeks and onwards, a recurrent theme in Western philosophy has been the need to domesticate emotion by the reason that has been taken as the necessary premise for virtue.
