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The Passions

The strong emotions — fear, desire, grief, delight — that the Stoics sought to uproot entirely and Aristotle only to moderate.

The passions (pathē) are the powerful, often disturbing emotions, and how to handle them split the Greek schools. Aristotle (4th c. BCE) held that they should be trained to the right mean — neither suppressed nor indulged. The Stoics (3rd c. BCE onward) judged them to be mistaken value-judgments, to be uprooted altogether in favor of calm 'good feelings' (eupatheiai). This debate over reason versus emotion shaped Western moral psychology, medicine, and theories of the will for two thousand years.

How it traveled

History of the Peloponnesian War
Athens · -400
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Republic
Athens · -375
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Phaedrus
Athens · -370
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Timaeus
Athens · -360
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Philebus
Athens · -355
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Memorabilia
Athens · -354
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Cyropaedia
Athens · -354
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Laws
Athens · -348
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Rhetoric
Chalcis · -335
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Nicomachean Ethics
Chalcis · -322
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Eudemian Ethics
Chalcis · -322
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Magna Moralia
Chalcis · -322
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Politics
Chalcis · -322
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Problemata
Chalcis · -322
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De anima
Chalcis · -322
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Mercator
Rome · -184
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Histories
Megalopolis · -118
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De Inventione
Formiae · -84
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In C. Verrem
Formiae · -70
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Pro A. Cluentio
Formiae · -66
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On Oratory
Formiae · -55
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De Rerum Natura
Rome · -55
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De Republica
Formiae · -54
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Paradoxa Stoicorum
Formiae · -46
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Tusculanae Disputationes
Formiae · -43
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Catilinae Coniuratio
Rome · -43
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de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
Formiae · -43
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Aeneid
Rome · -19
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Remedia amoris
Tomis (Constanța) · 1
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Metamorphoses
Tomis (Constanța) · 8
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Key passages(20)

Arius Didymus, Liber de philosophorum sectis (epitome ap. Stobaeum) 3.21↗explains

Liber de philosophorum sectis (epitome ap. Stobaeum) · Arius Didymus