Roman Passions

[Onasander]

733. Hinc metuunl. The passions are generally ranked under these four heads: fear and grief; joy and desire. The two first have for their object present or future evil; the two last, present or future good. Autos: in the sense of evlum.

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=qWTRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA384&lpg=PA384&dq=manes+vs+soul&source=bl&ots=89rwRUChIY&sig=w4FfgUGrYeDaotLG0F0dSMik8yw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E2E7VN6VB4WXyATdyID4Dw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwCDgK

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can sorta understand this, but don't know the origins of this roman understanding of present and future division of emotions.

 

Can anyone tell me what primary source to look at?

[caldrail]

The Romans often categorised things - sometimes they explained or justified it, sometimes they didn't. The same attitude covered just about every realm of knowledge. Why? To be honest I haven't seen an adequate explanation in print, but I would say that it was a simlification for ease of learning, the Roman obsession with order, and the desire to sound learned and clever.

[Onasander]

It's a typographical ordering of emotive states into two categories of time.... it has neurological implications then, and is important for the history of neurology.

 

 

I just don't know it's origins, I came across this after a very long search for something unrelated, and was fascinated by it.

 

Merely compare it to this:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6vheim_cube_of_emotion

Edited October 16, 2014 by Onasander