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Does gratitude always have an intentional object? I am often grateful for something, e.g. for a good meal or a sunset, but I think I know there's some debate about whether e.g. pain has an intentional object; what about gratitude for the feelings associated with something, is this intentional, and if so is it in any way less or more expressive?

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    On the usual meaning of gratitude, its object, what it is directed at, is not what you are grateful for but who or what you are grateful to. In the case of a meal, it would be the cook, or perhaps, more remotely, God (believers often say prayers thanking him for "this food we are about to eat"), in the case of a sunset, maybe nature, or again, God. And in the case of the feelings it would be the cause of the feelings, not the feelings themselves. Remember that intentional object does not have to be anything tangible.
    – Conifold
    Commented May 25 at 0:35
  • thanks for the comment @Conifold any idea why nietzsche both links it to wonder and calls it a "rope"?
    – andrós
    Commented May 25 at 0:35

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