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11 Passions of Man

The document discusses the eleven passions of man, which are divided into concupiscible and irascible passions. The concupiscible passions relate to love, desire, joy, hatred, aversion, and sorrow toward good and evil. The irascible passions relate to hope, despair, daring, fear, and anger toward arduous good and evil. If man did not experience these passions, his wholesome will, body, health, behavior, and cognitive abilities would be negatively affected. Passions are a natural part of being human that help with development by allowing us to feel love, joy, anger and other emotions in response to our circumstances.

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11 Passions of Man

The document discusses the eleven passions of man, which are divided into concupiscible and irascible passions. The concupiscible passions relate to love, desire, joy, hatred, aversion, and sorrow toward good and evil. The irascible passions relate to hope, despair, daring, fear, and anger toward arduous good and evil. If man did not experience these passions, his wholesome will, body, health, behavior, and cognitive abilities would be negatively affected. Passions are a natural part of being human that help with development by allowing us to feel love, joy, anger and other emotions in response to our circumstances.

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Geralyn A.

Alarde
BSED II-Values Education

1. What are the eleven Passions of man?

Concupiscible Passions
 Love - good; affinity for the good
 Desire - good; attraction toward a good not yet attained
 Joy - good; rest in the good attained
 Hatred - evil; revulsion from the evil
 Aversion - evil; repulsion from evil not yet experienced
 Sorrow - evil; succumbing to evil already present

Irascible Passions
 Hope - arduous good; attraction toward the attainable
 Despair - arduous good; a cause of hopelessness
 Daring - arduous evil; venturesomely bold in action or thought
 Fear - arduous evil; profound reverence and awe especially toward God
 Anger - arduous evil; a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism

2. What will happen if man did not experience this passion?

– Everyday, we humans experience our passions getting better of us. These passions pertain to
our emotions toward an object, a person and any life circumstances. Passions cause a
transformation of the normal condition of the body and its organs which often appears
externally. However, if man did not experience the passions, basically his wholesome will be
affected–his body and its organs, his health, behavior and the cognitive aspect of man will
totally be distracted. It may lead to unhappiness, inability to make effective decisions and
difficulty to recognize himself in every different situations he might face.

We are living creations of God, thus, we need to feel those emotions, we have to experience
those passions to develop ourselves. We need to love and to be loved which would give us joy.
We normally desire for something and feel angry whener we never get it and so on. Through
passions we feel the essence of living as humans. They are originally not bad but they become
when are being uncontrolled.

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