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Full Idea
The mind is subject to passions in proportion to the number of inadequate ideas which it has.
Gist of Idea
Minds are subject to passions if they have inadequate ideas
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], III Pr 01)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.100
A Reaction
An exceptionally intellectualist view of emotions!
5963 | Some say emotion is a sort of reason, and others say virtue concerns emotion [Plutarch] |
17203 | Minds are subject to passions if they have inadequate ideas [Spinoza] |
4864 | An emotion is only bad if it hinders us from thinking [Spinoza] |
12935 | Every feeling is the perception of a truth [Leibniz] |
23939 | We fail to see that reason is a network of passions, and every passion contains some reason [Nietzsche] |
23937 | It is reason which needs the anchorage of passions, rather than vice versa [Solomon] |
23947 | Dividing ourselves into confrontational reason and passion destroys our harmonious whole [Solomon] |
23958 | The supposed irrationality of our emotions is often tactless or faulty expression of them [Solomon] |
5335 | Emotions are usually very apt, rather than being non-rational and fickle [Flanagan] |
23967 | Some emotions are direct responses, and neither rational nor irrational [Goldie] |
23971 | Emotional thought is not rational, but it can be intelligible [Goldie] |