Single Idea 24039

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism]

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 Reference

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]