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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

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A Reaction

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