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Will Buckingham
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Writer (HELLO, STRANGER, Granta 2022) & philosopher. In Pingtung, Taiwan, with a foot in Scotland. Professor @ Parami University, Myanmar. Director @windandbones.com www.willbuckingham.com www.windandbones.com
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Schol We see then that the mind can undergo considerable changes, and can pass now to a state of greater perfection, now to one of less perfection, and it is these passive transitions [passiones] that explicate for us the emotions of Pleasure [laetitia] and Pain [tristitia]. So in what follows I shall understand by pleasure "the passive transition of the mind to a state of greater perfection," and by pain "the passive transition of the mind to state of less perfec-tion." The emotion of pleasure when it is simultaneously related to mind and body I call Titillation [titillatio] or Cheerfulness [hilari-tas]; the emotion of pain when it is similarly related I call Anguish [dolor] or Melancholy [melancholia]. But be it noted that titillation and anguish are related to man when one part of him is affected more than others, cheerfulness and melancholy when all parts ar equally affected. As to Desire [cupiditas], I have explained what is in Schol. Pr. 9, III, and I acknowledge no primary emotion oth
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