Single Idea 23987

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / e. Basic emotions]

Full Idea

For Hobbes the 'simple passions' were appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief.

Gist of Idea

The 'simple passions' are appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief

Source

report of Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], I.6) by Peter Goldie - The Emotions 4 'Evidence'

Book Reference

Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.87


A Reaction

This is the standard approach to emotions of Hobbes's time. Modern thinkers probably reject the idea that passions can be simple or basic. Rightly, I think.