id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6269 Stoic passions - Wikipedia .html text/html 1615 316 56 The passions are transliterated pathê from Greek.[1][2] The Greek word pathos was a wide-ranging term indicating an infliction one suffers.[3] The Stoics used the word to discuss many common emotions such as anger, fear and excessive joy.[4] Chrysippus regarded the passions as evaluative judgements.[5] A person experiencing such an emotion has incorrectly valued an indifferent thing.[6] They are harmful because they conflict with right reason.[7] Failure to reason correctly brings about the occurrence of pathē.[3] The Stoics beginning with Zeno arranged the passions under four headings: distress, pleasure, fear and lust.[8] In On Passions, Andronicus reported the Stoic definitions of these passions (trans. Two of these passions (distress and delight) refer to emotions currently present, and two of these (fear and lust) refer to emotions directed at the future.[8] Thus there are just two states directed at the prospect of good and evil, but subdivided as to whether they are present or future:[9] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6269.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6269.txt