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Full Idea
The affections of the soul - spiritedness, fear, pity, confidence, joy, loving, hating - would all seem to involve the body, since at the same time as these the body is affected in a certain way.
Gist of Idea
All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling
Source
Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 403a16)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'De Anima (on the psuche)', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.4
A Reaction
Aristotle was not a physicalist, but this resembles the pilot-in-the-ship passage in Descartes, accepting the very close links.
Related Ideas
Idea 3616 The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes]
Idea 23981 Rage is inconceivable without bodily responses; so there are no disembodied emotions [James]