Single Idea 22510

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / d. Emotional feeling]

Full Idea

Many classify even love as involuntary, and certain cases of anger and certain natural states as being too strong for human nature; and we regard them as being pardonable, as being of such a nature as to be constrained by nature.

Gist of Idea

Some emotional states are too strong for human nature

Source

Aristotle (Eudemian Ethics [c.333 BCE], 1225b20)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Eudemian Ethics I,II and VIII', ed/tr. Woods,Michael [OUP 1992], p.27


A Reaction

Blind terror would presumably count as another such state. An interesting aspect of Aristotle's picture - that human nature contains ingredients that are not part of a natural harmonious whole.