While adopting Martha NussbaumNussbaum, M.’s cognitivist view of emotionNussbaum, M.Cognitivist view of emotion as a form of perspectival judgment, the chapter takes issue with two major aspects of her emotions work. First, while she characterizes such judgments as “eudaimonisticNussbaum, M.Cognitivist view of emotionEudaimonistic judgments”, we deem them to be no less perspectival, yet more generally normative. Second, her almost exclusive focus on the role played by emotion in politics and the law,Nussbaum, M.emotions in politics and the law steers her discussion more toward social norms than to personal commitment, creating a blind spot with respect to the type of self-directed emotional responses focused upon here.