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Natural philosophy deals with the actions and operations of passions, and the task of moral philosophy is to explore whether and how the passions can, or should be bridled, and how their indifference is transformed into good or evil by virtue of the domination of right reason. [4]
The principle of these is that passions, as is suggested by the word’s etymology, are by nature suffered and endured, and are therefore the result of an external cause acting upon a subject. [4] In contrast, modern psychology considers emotions to be a sensation which occurs inside a subject and therefore is produced by the subject themselves.
The passions are transliterated pathê from Greek. [1] The Greek word pathos was a wide-ranging term indicating an infliction one suffers. [2] The Stoics used the word to discuss many common emotions such as anger, fear and excessive joy. [3] A passion is a disturbing and misleading force in the mind which occurs because of a failure to reason ...
Idea of art-project: Red it is force and the power, riches and blood, Energy of movement and categorical interdiction. In a word red is a life. "Black water and white water" Idea of art-project: The most part of our planet is covered with water. The most part of a human body consists of water. Water gives a human a life, but can take away it.
Cicero provides (§25–26) definitions and examples of the various passions. He explains (§27–28) the analogy between body and soul, and between disease and health. He describes (§31) the limitations of the analogy (a healthy soul cannot become diseased like a healthy body can); and explains (§32) how the clever are less prone to sickness.
Passion and desire go hand in hand, especially as a motivation. Linstead & Brewis refer to Merriam-Webster to say that passion is an "intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction". This suggests that passion is a very intense emotion, but can be positive or negative. Negatively, it may be unpleasant at times.
St John Passion, a 1724 setting of the Passion by J. S. Bach; St Matthew Passion, 1727 setting of the Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach; Passions (C. P. E. Bach), 21 settings of the Passion by C.P.E. Bach; The Passion or Symphony No. 49, by Joseph Haydn; The Passions, by William Hayes; Passion, 1994 musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: Terrestrial animal , an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to arboreal life (in trees)