Passion
idea · 6 works · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages
passion · the passions · anger · being acted upon · imprints upon the soul · infiʻāl · passions · pathos · spirit · the mind of the flesh
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Stromata (Greek) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin) · Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
The simple account, then, of our philosophy says that all the passions are imprints upon the soft and yielding soul, and, as it were, seals impressed by the spiritual powers, against which is our wrestling.
The Passions1 mention
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
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.
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.
Some identify Choice with (1) Desire, or (2) Passion, or (3) Wish, or (4) some form of Opinion.
And again (4) what difference is there in respect of their involuntary character between wrong acts committed deliberately and wrong acts done in anger?
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.
and passion is an excessive impulse, or one overstraining the measures according to reason, or an impulse carried away and disobedient 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.
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The soul's being stirred into act, standing between the settled trait and the deed, and serving as the inward symptom of moral disease.
while the actions are the outward symptoms issuing from the soul, corresponding to those passions, so that these actions are indications of the passions, and they are the marks by which corrupt traits of character and blameworthy settled dispositions are known.
Adab al-wazīr
Hawā, passion or caprice, the ambushing inner force that deceives and veils, to be fought with reason and suspected behind counterfeit virtues.
and though the two are set fast in the constitution of men of merit, the quick-witted man is not for all his sharpness exempt from the vigilance of one who rouses him, nor is the man of understanding satisfied with his own prudence to the exclusion of the admonition of one who reminds him — for passion lies in wait, deceiving with its infatuation and veiling with its cloud.
so fight your passion with your reason and cover the flaw of your character with your forbearance.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Bodily desires and impulses that ascetic discipline seeks to subdue.
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.
From then on he put to death all the passions;
Letters to Lucilius
Emotional passions such as grief, fear, and desire, debated as to whether they should be moderated or eliminated
Whether it is better to have moderate passions or none has often been inquired.
Who denies that all passions flow from a certain, as it were, natural source?
What Panaetius answered to the man who asked about love, this I say about all the passions.