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Passion (from the Greek verb ''πασχω'' meaning to suffer) is a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire for something. Passion may be a friendly or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, discovery, or activity or love – to a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion, a positive affinity or love, towards a subject. It is particularly used in the context of romance or sexual desire though it generally implies a deeper or more encompassing emotion than that implied by the term ''lust''. Denis Diderot describes passions as "penchants, inclinations, desires and aversions carried to a certain degree of intensity, combined with an indistinct sensation of pleasure or pain, occasioned or accompanied by some irregular movement of the blood and animal spirits, are what we call passions. They can be so strong as to inhibit all practice of personal freedom, a state in which the soul is in some sense rendered passive; whence the name passions. This inclination or so-called disposition of the soul, is born of the opinion we hold that a great good or a great evil is contained in an object which in and of itself arouses passion" 〔http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=did;cc=did;rgn=main;view=text;idno=did2222.0000.248〕 He further breaks down pleasure and pain, which are the guiding principles of passion into four major categories: # Pleasures and pains of the senses # Pleasures of the mind or of the imagination # Our perfection or our imperfection of virtues or vices # Pleasures and pains in the happiness or misfortunes of others ==Reason== In his wake, Stoics like Epitectus emphasized that "the most important and especially pressing field of study is that which has to do with the stronger emotions...sorrows, lamentations, envies...passions which make it impossible for us even to listen to reason".〔W. A. Oldfield trans., ''Epitectus: The Discourses Vol II'' (london 1978) p. 23〕 The Stoic tradition still lay behind Hamlet's plea to "Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core",〔Harold Jenkins ed., ''Hamlet'' (London 1995) p. 292〕 or Erasmus's lament that "Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason – you could calculate the ratio as 24 to one".〔Quoted in Goleman, p. 9〕 It was only with the Romantic movement that a valorisation of passion ''over'' reason took hold in the Western tradition: "the more Passion there is, the better the Poetry".〔John Dennis, in M. H. Abrams, ''The Mirror and the Lamp'' (Oxford 1953) p. 75〕 The recent concerns of emotional intelligence have been to find a synthesis of the two forces—something that "turns the old understanding of the tension between reason and feeling on its head: it is not that we want to do away with emotion and put reason in its place, as Erasmus had it, but instead find the intelligent balance of the two".〔Goleman, p. 28-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Passion (emotion)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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