apatheia
“impassivity”
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
absence of malice · enslave · fight · freedom · freedom from passion · impassivity · tyrants
spoken of as
2 expressionsFreedom from passion“apatheia”2 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Economics (Greek)
"Become perfect as your Father," perfectly forgiving sins, bearing no malice, and passing their lives in the settled disposition of freedom from passion.
Freedom from passions1 mention
Economics (Greek)
Ah, Critobulus, we must fight for our freedom against these tyrants as persistently as if they were armed men trying to enslave us.
in the texts
Lucullus
Pyrrho's coined term for the wise man's freedom from feeling.
But Pyrrho held that the wise man does not even feel those things — which is named apatheia (impassivity).
Stromata
The state of passionlessness attributed to the perfected gnostic.
"Become perfect as your Father," perfectly forgiving sins, bearing no malice, and passing their lives in the settled disposition of freedom from passion.
And concerning that freedom from passion, so to speak, which belongs to the gnostic—according to which the perfecting of the believer, advancing through love "to a perfect man, to the measure of stature," arrives at being made like to God, having become truly "equal to the angels"—many other testimonies from Scripture come to mind to be set forth;
Economics
Freedom from passions is the moral liberation required to preserve body, soul, and estate.
Ah, Critobulus, we must fight for our freedom against these tyrants as persistently as if they were armed men trying to enslave us.