ABSTRACT
This paper explores the various ways in which emotions involve desires. Emotions are classified as (1) appetitive, involving desires for a state of affairs not realized, and (2) possessive, where the emotion is a reaction to the satisfaction of a desire. Further, in some emotions the element of desire is the desire to dwell on an object in thought. The existence of these emotions, which are forms of enjoyment, suggests that physiological changes, etc., are not necessary features of emotion.
