  The idea that emotion may enter unconsciously into good reasoning and yield a moral emotion that has a better rational basis than a person’s consciously held beliefs may seem surprising. However, there is a growing literature in cognitive science over the past decade that supports the cognitive sophistication of our affective system that operates largely unconsciously in practical decision-making. For an illuminating review of these developments that links insights of Aristotle and Kant to the unconscious cognitive work done by our evolved system of “affective attunement”, see Railton 2014. The lesson is not that belief and emotion do not generally cohere in moral judgment, but that emotion is itself cognitively complex and can make its own independent and rationally based contribution to moral judgment.