Value by feelings

“In reaction to the Cartesian account of emotions as sensations, a number of contemporary philosophers have suggested that we explain them in terms of evaluative judgments. Thus, fear is not to be construed as a set of chills, shudders, and the like –introspectively identifiable events of feeling. Rather, it essentially involves a belief that danger looms- perhaps as a cause of sensation or its physiological underpinnings, but at any rate, as a necessary element of genuine cases of fear.”
Emotions and Reasons: An inquiry into emotional justification. Greenspan, P. Routledge, 1989.