ABSTRACT
Alexander Pfänder is perhaps best known for his works on volition (cf. Uemura and Yaegashi 2012; Uemura forthcoming). But his discussion of emotions also merits attention. Like many other early phenomenologists, he deals with emotions under the heading of “feelings (Gefühle),” which may refer to a broader range of experience than “emotions.” For example, when he attempts to analyze feelings in detail for the first time in his Einführung in die Psychologie (1904), he does not confine himself to what many of us now would call emotions. Later in his “Zur Psychologie der Gesinnungen” (1913/1916), however, he deals with a certain class of feelings called “sentiments (Gesinnungen),” which are certainly a class of emotions. In the present chapter, after giving a summary of Pfänder’s early view on feelings (Section 2), we reconstruct and assess his discussion of sentiments in the later period (Sections 3–6).
