Sara Protasi

Who they are

The work of Sara Protasi reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Envy, Jealousy.

Key papers

Protasi, S. (2017). I'm not envious, I'm just jealous: On the difference between envy and jealousy. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 3(3), 316-333. What it reports: Argues that envy and jealousy are distinct emotions that often occur together: envy turns on lacking a good someone else has, jealousy on the threat of losing a good one already holds. Tests the account against rival views and hard cases.

Key ideas

Envy: Seeing that one lacks a good that someone else has; distinguished from jealousy, which concerns a good one already holds.

Jealousy: The feeling that a valued bond or share of attention is moving toward a rival, seen in experiments from infancy onward.

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