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<p>For many of us grief is forever. Or so goes a folk view. In this paper I present a qualified defense of this insight. We don’t feel the impact of loss maximally all the time. Rather, we continue to feel it for the rest of our lives. Grief doesn’t simply diminish but rekindles like fire. As I put it, grief is an <i>intermittent emotion</i>, capable of going out of existence, then existing again as the same thing. I argue that this trajectory is fitting. Intermittent emotions have a rational status; their distinct temporal pattern gets something <i>right</i> about their objects. This proposal dissolves a recent philosophical worry that grief diminishes over a short time despite the persistence of its eliciting loss. Moreover, it provides a sophisticated sketch of the fittingness of emotions over time: intermittence is a norm to evaluate emotional fittingness alongside character and intensity.</p>

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Grief Rekindles

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    2025年12月1日

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  • Jeremiah Tillman

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For many of us grief is forever. Or so goes a folk view. In this paper I present a qualified defense of this insight. We don’t feel the impact of loss maximally all the time. Rather, we continue to feel it for the rest of our lives. Grief doesn’t simply diminish but rekindles like fire. As I put it, grief is an intermittent emotion, capable of going out of existence, then existing again as the same thing. I argue that this trajectory is fitting. Intermittent emotions have a rational status; their distinct temporal pattern gets something right about their objects. This proposal dissolves a recent philosophical worry that grief diminishes over a short time despite the persistence of its eliciting loss. Moreover, it provides a sophisticated sketch of the fittingness of emotions over time: intermittence is a norm to evaluate emotional fittingness alongside character and intensity.