It's boring, but always have a wee after sex: raging cystitis is a proper passion-killer.
As wrestlers we are not both villains, and that excites no proper passions.
But Spinoza's account differs in several important respects: he lists contempt along with wonder [admiratio], and counts neither as proper passions.
The cellarer Remigio uses the phrase "even less proper passions" to distinguish homosexuality from heterosexuality.
Adso is willing to admit falling prey to such a feminine devil, but will not admit to what another monk elsewhere calls "less proper passions," namely homosexuality.
The reason for this is obvious: the rise of rightwing nationalist populism in western Europe, which is now the strongest political force advocating the protection of working class interests, and simultaneously the strongest political force able to give rise to proper political passions.
They wanted tears, passion, proper emoting.
This may be what Aristotle means when he writes that "the position that Socrates sought to establish actually seems to result; for it is not what is thought to be knowledge proper that the passion overcomes … but perceptual knowledge" (Nicomachean Ethics, 1147b14 17).
Descartes, for instance, wrote of "internal" or "intellectual" emotions, which are not passions proper, but certainly have affective components, as well as being causally intertwined with the true passions.
For this reason, Descartes admits that many other kinds of perceptions and volitions stand in close causal and experiential relations to the passions proper.
