Editing Virtue (section)

===Virtues as emotions===
{{See also|Moral emotions}}

Marc Jackson in his book ''Emotion and Psyche'' identifies the virtues as what he calls the good emotions: "The first group consisting of [[love]], [[kindness]], [[joy]], faith, [[awe]] and [[pity]] is good".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jackson | first=Marc | title=Emotion and Psyche | publisher=John Hunt Publishing | date=16 September 2010 | isbn=978-1-84694-378-2|page=12}}</ref> These virtues differ from older accounts of the virtues because they are not character traits expressed by action, but emotions that are to be felt and developed by feeling not acting.

Immanuel Kant, in his ''Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime'', predicts and replies to Marc Johnson's view of emotions as virtues. To be goodhearted, benevolent, and sympathetic is not true virtue, for one acts merely episodically, motivated by appeasing those naturally limited feelings, such as in the presence, for example, of a needy person in the street: in such a case, we do not act for a universal motive but simply as a response to end a particular, individual, personal distress arisen in us by our own sentiments.