Catalogue of Aristotle’s Emotions as Representational Pleasures or Distresses

Abstract

Abstract To close the book, a Catalogue of Aristotle’s emotions as representational pleasures or distresses is provided. The goal is specifically to chart the representational pleasures and distresses that Aristotle links to the various states he discusses or mentions in connection with particular emotions. To keep the chapter within sensible bounds, some criteria for inclusion are invoked. The Catalogue includes the states that are discussed in the Rhetoric II catalogue of individual emotions, including their ‘opposites’, and also the emotions discussed at the start of Rhetoric II.9. In addition, it also addresses any other states which are referred to on the lists of emotions in Nicomachean Ethics II.5 (1105b21–3), Eudemian Ethics II.2 (1220b12–14), and De anima I.1 (403a16–18). But that is where the line is drawn. As it is, there are twenty-one entries in the pantheon and some of these will end up covering more than one emotion.