![]() ![]() By considering the rubrics of creation, fall, and redemption – as Thomas does – we find that our resources for analyzing the passions are greatly enriched. One upshot of this approach for Thomists is that it sharpens our vocabulary when describing human nature and the conditions for the moral life. As I argue in this essay, Thomas’s writings on Christ’s human affectivity should not be limited to the concerns of Christology rather, they should be integrated into a fuller account of the human passions. Yet these accounts have paid inadequate attention to Thomas’s writings on Christ’s passions as a source of moral reflection. Link to free access "read-only" version: In recent scholarship, moral theologians and readers of Thomas Aquinas have shown increasing sensitivity to the role of the passions in the moral life. In doing so, it provides a partial but substantial genealogy of an important heuristic taxonomy in the history of emotions, while suggesting that the philosophical import of the distinction in the eighteenth century owes something to rhetorical and poetic traditions which are often not considered by historians of philosophy. This article examines the long history of the distinction between calm and violent, or mild and vehement, emotions from the classical Roman rhetorical tradition through the Renaissance and into the modern period. Carl Meißner Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.Abstract: While the distinction between the calm and violent passions has been treated by Hume scholars from a number of perspectives relevant to the Scottish philosopher’s thought more generally, little scholarly attention has been paid to this distinction either in the works of Hume’s non-English contemporaries (e.g., the French Jesuit Pierre Brumoy) or in the long rhetorical and literary tradition which often categorized the emotions as either calm or violent.1 adfectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 34.Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) affectus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D.Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press (having been) impaired, (having been) weakened.(having been) influenced, (having been) affected.I thought it useful to divide this text into seven chapters, setting their titles out here so as to facilitate an understanding of what is to be discussed. Quod ut fiat, non est harum speculationum progressus perfunctorie transcurrendus, sed morosissime ruminandus. (having been) endowed with, possessed of quam venustas, magis exercitatio affectus quam eruditio intellectus. ![]()
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