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Full Idea
The Stoics named four basic emotions: pleasure or delight, distress, appetite, and fear
Gist of Idea
There are four basic emotions: pleasure or delight, distress, appetite, and fear
Source
report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - Tusculan Disputations iv.13-15
Book Ref
Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.87
A Reaction
'Distress' sounds too vague to do the job of explaining anything. Getting them down to four suggests an extreme desire to simplify such things.
23988 | There are four basic emotions: pleasure or delight, distress, appetite, and fear [Stoic school, by Cicero] |
4313 | Are there a few primary passions (say, joy, sadness and desire)? [Descartes, by Cottingham] |
23989 | There are six primitive passions: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness [Descartes, by Goldie] |
17261 | Apart from pleasure and pain, the only emotions are appetite and aversion [Hobbes] |
23987 | The 'simple passions' are appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief [Hobbes, by Goldie] |
23990 | The three primary emotions are pleasure, pain, and desire [Spinoza, by Goldie] |
4849 | The three primary emotions are pleasure, pain and desire [Spinoza] |
23964 | There are no 'basic' emotions, only socially prevalent ones [Solomon] |
23970 | Emotions are not avocado pears, with a rigid core and changeable surface [Goldie] |
23985 | A basic emotion is the foundation of a hierarchy, such as anger for types of annoyance [Goldie] |
23991 | Cross-cultural studies of facial expressions suggests seven basic emotions [Goldie] |
23986 | Early Chinese basic emotions: joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, disliking, and liking [Goldie] |