Two centuries on, Darwin wrote that man and the higher animals share "the same senses, intuitions, and sensations, similar passions, affections, and emotions, even the more complex ones such as jealousy, suspicion, emulation, gratitude, and magnanimity; they practise deceit and are revengeful".
Butler argued in the Sermons that conscience was a principle superior to and governing of the particular passions, affections, and instincts and established a hierarchy among them (Sermon XIII §7).
Before then, relevant mental states were categorised variously as "appetites," "passions," "affections," or "sentiments".
The present article uses the intellectual history of this term to offer an historical diagnosis of the contemporary definitional malaise, and to offer a reminder of some of the ideas about passions, affections, and emotions that have been forgotten during the last two centuries.
After looking at hundreds of pictures of terrible smooches I yelled at my laptop, "Somebody, please, suspend my disbelief!" We expect a lot out of our celebrity kisses -- passion, tenderness, sexual hunger, affection, but we rarely get it, off-screen.
Because of his love, affection and remarkable generosity, there are several thousand Calhoun graduates who carry forward his passion for intellectual pursuit.
Usually, Gogglebox occasions an outpouring of hysterical passion and affection.
'I hog the airship,' trilled Katharine, explaining with genuine passion her affection for the vessel and her reluctance to cede control to her co-pilot.
The book is, among other things, a cautionary tale of a hypertrophied intellectualism that overreacts to any faint threat of sentimentality or child's logic, and threatens to choke off and kill any spontaneous show of pleasure, passion or affection.
You could hear the passion and affection for books and reading in Linda's voice.
