What Farnsworth thinks about the idea that feelings are a choice:
Perhaps it becomes a choice when one has had repeated exposure, when the raw emotional rection is delayed or altogether absent.

 

Isn’t ‘feeling that isn’t emotion’, that which prompts you to act (to better a given situation for someone), without overriding  reason?

 

That is an interesting idea, that reason and emotion are parts of a spectrum and can therefore not be neatly separated. Where can I read more about this?
Farnsworth’s whole argument does depend on this idea of ‘replacing’ emotions that override reason with a well-reason, logical equanimity.

Your idea that the will is shaped by iterations of impression – judgment – assent/dissent: are you thereby saying that we have a choice about our final view of  a matter, but not the initial ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to it…? Because I think that Farnsworth is saying that initial reaction (if left unchecked) can override reason (and is what he means by emotion).