Emotion fails because it denies the world’s resistance while reason succeeds by acknowledging it

Evidence

Sartre feels that the rational choice is the best one. This was already evident in his treatment of the emotions. The emotional relation, which is a purely personal relation set up by the For-itself between it and the In-itself, is inadequate because it is ineffective; it can not (at least not directly) affect the environment and produce lasting results. This is because it is essentially a denial of the instrumental complexes of the world; it refuses to admit the external resistance, what Sartre (after Bachelard) calls the “coefficient of adversity” of the In-itself. Reason, on the other hand, always takes this organized world into consideration, for by definition knowledge is the one real bridge between the For-itself and the In-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 77

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Sartre’s borrowed term ‘coefficient of adversity’ for the In-itself’s resistance that emotion denies but reason acknowledges.
• XREF: connects to: Intellectual defeat of prejudice fails to extinguish its emotional residue — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2160; Emotional benefits sustain worldviews that good arguments cannot dislodge — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 393; The world reveals itself only through engagement and rejection (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual defeat of prejudice fails to extinguish its emotional residue #exemplifies (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2160
• Emotional benefits sustain worldviews that good arguments cannot dislodge #exemplifies (0.80) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 393
• Emotional content propagates ideas more than factual accuracy does #exemplifies (0.80)
• The world reveals itself only through engagement and rejection #corroborates (0.75)
• Pure reason without emotion becomes mere tautology and unconsciousness #qualifies (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 150
• Reason adapts humans to power rather than unifying subject and object #qualifies (0.75)