Abstract

KONSTAN, David. Emoción y virtud en Jenofonte. Circe clás. mod. [online]. 2022, vol.26, n.2, pp.153-166. ISSN 1851-1724.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.19137/circe-2022-260206.

This work distinguishes between three types of psychological experience: desires that are stimulated by pleasure; emotions such as anger, gratitude, shame, and also fear, which involve valuations, whether pragmatic or ethical; and despondency or athumia, which is induced by a sense of helplessness and aporia. The first of these is governed by self-control, enkrateia or sôphrosunê, as the corresponding virtue. Emotions are subject to a different psychic mechanism, involving a proper evaluation of the conditions that provoke them. Finally, despondency or athumia constitutes yet another category, as a state of passivity, of loss of agency.

Keywords : Emotion; Virtue; Anger; Xenophon; Despondency.

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