Affetti e passioni nel pensiero medievale

• Authors: Silvana Vecchio

Title variants

EN

Affects and Passions in Medieval Thought

FR

Affetti e passioni nel pensiero medievale

• Languages of publication: IT

Abstracts

FR

The article points out the stages of medieval reflection on affectivity. In controversy with stoical positions, Augustine re-evaluates passions, linking them to the Passion of Christ, and describes them as motions of will that may be both good and bad, depending on the object to which they are directed. This christianization of passions dominates high-medieval culture, intertwining with the most widespread moral system, that of the seven deadly sins. From the XII century and especially in the thirteenth century, the translation of the Greek and Arabic philosophical sources and a renewed interest in the study ofthe soul and its faculties, allow to develop new doctrines about passions, culminating in the treatise of Thomas Aquinas, the most complete and systematic analysis of the emotional universe up to the modern age.

EN

The article points out the stages of medieval reflection on affectivity. In controversy with stoical positions, Augustine re-evaluates passions, linking them to the Passion of Christ, and describes them as motions of will that may be both good and bad, depending on the object to which they are directed. This christianization of passions dominates high-medieval culture, intertwining with the most widespread moral system, that of the seven deadly sins. From the XII century and especially in the thirteenth century, the translation of the Greek and Arabic philosophical sources and a renewed interest in the study of the soul and its faculties, allow to develop new doctrines about passions, culminating in the treatise of Thomas Aquinas, the most complete and systematic analysis of the emotional universe up to the modern age.

Keywords

IT

passions; soul; medieval ethics; medieval psychology; virtues and vices

FR

passions; soul; medieval ethics; medieval psychology; virtues and vices; passions; soul; medieval ethics; medieval psychology; virtues and vices

EN

passions; soul; medieval ethics; medieval psychology; virtues and vices

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-18

Dates

published

2018-07-05

Contributors

author

Silvana Vecchio

• Università degli Studi di Ferrara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2018.451.001