id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1278 Stoic passions - Wikipedia .html text/html 1799 327 60 The passions are transliterated pathĂȘ 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 correctly.[2] For the Stoic Chrysippus the passions are evaluative judgements.[4] A person experiencing such an emotion has incorrectly valued an indifferent thing.[5] A fault of judgement, some false notion of good or evil, lies at the root of each passion.[6] Incorrect judgement as to a present good gives rise to delight, while lust is a wrong estimate about the future.[6] Unreal imaginings of evil cause distress about the present, or fear for the future.[6] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1278.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1278.txt