Sentence examples for proper passions from inspiring English sources
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.
It's boring, but always have a wee after sex: raging cystitis is a proper passion-killer.
Jens König, a reporter for the news weekly Stern, tweeted that it was "the first time that Merkel is showing some proper passion during the NSA affair".
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.
For this reason, Descartes admits that many other kinds of perceptions and volitions stand in close causal and experiential relations to the passions proper.
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.
Even this is a bit too broad, and so Descartes defines passions proper as "those perceptions, sensations or emotions of the soul which we refer particularly to it, and which are caused, maintained and strengthened by some movement of the spirits" (AT XI 349, CSM I 338-9).
Moreover, passions proper need not arise only by way of completely external causes; they can arise through volitions, when the volition produces a bodily effect, as when the intellect's raising something for consideration under a universal prompts a particular appearance in the imagination (see de Veritate q.26).
