Passion
idea · 4 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
the passions · passion · anger · imprints upon the soul · passions · pathos · spirit · the mind of the flesh · thumos · vice
spoken of as
2 expressionsPassions3 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin) · Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
And each deceit, continually pressing upon the soul, imprints in it its image;
The Passions1 mention
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
From then on he put to death all the passions;
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
An emotional impulse such as anger, distinguished from both desire and choice, and later linked to a spurious form of courage.
(2) Still less is choice the same as passion.
(3) Spirit or anger is also classed with Courage.
For it is probably a mistake to say that acts caused by anger or by desire are involuntary.
Stromata
The concept of passion as excessive or disobedient impulse contrary to reason, illustrated through both philosophical definition and poetic example.
" Mishap, then, is an error contrary to reason;
But even if fear is a passion, as some wish, because fear is a passion, not all fear is a passion.
yet, though I have judgment, nature forces me" — that is, his having become given over to the passion.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Bodily desires and impulses that ascetic discipline seeks to subdue.
From then on he put to death all the passions;
and the mind of the flesh he so subjected to the spirit, as a slave to a master, forgetting altogether delight and rest, and commanding sleep as a bad servant.
Letters to Lucilius
Emotional passions such as grief, fear, and desire, debated as to whether they should be moderated or eliminated
grant their right to tears that fall so justly.
Who denies that all passions flow from a certain, as it were, natural source?
Whether it is better to have moderate passions or none has often been inquired.