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Single Idea 4014

[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / b. Types of emotion ]

Full Idea

The Stoics classified the passions according to the implicit (and erroneous) opinions about the good and bad that they contained.

Gist of Idea

Stoics classify passions according to the opinion of good and bad which they imply

Source

report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self §8

Book Ref

Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.149

A Reaction

This doesn't sound very promising, since nearly all emotions can be put to either a good or a bad use

The 5 ideas with the same theme [attempts to categorise emotions]:

4014 Stoics classify passions according to the opinion of good and bad which they imply [Stoic school, by Taylor,C]
23938 Passions are ranked, as if they are non-rational and animal pleasure seeking [Nietzsche]
23959 Some emotions are externally directed, others internally [Solomon]
9309 Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen]
23992 Some Aborigines have fifteen different words for types of fear [Goldie]