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(p. 133)-dynamis (p. 170); random use of italics (p. 33: Thumos et Eris, p. 39: Les Travaux et les Jours, on p. 98: Pindar in italics suggests it is a title, just like 'l'Iliade' and 'l'Odyssée'), capital letters (p. 92: le Vrai et le Juste but p. 105: le vrai et le juste, Le Turannos (p. 137) but le tyran and le Tyran (p. 140), l'ardeur (p. 120) but l'Ardeur (p. 122), on p. 193: VERNANT the only name throughout the notes to be written in capitals), inconsistency in interpretation of grammatical gender (le phrên (passim) but la sunesis (p. 117)), typographical style (À (p. 72) but A (p. 101), sometimes oe, and sometimes oe (p. 81)) or omission of quotation marks (l'ardeur tourmentée' (p. 68), l'âme (p. 71)), as well as erroneous word division (p. 46: obs-ervateur, p. 131: retrouvent etc.) and typing errors (p.

The paper is a discussion of P. M. S. Hacker, The Passions: A Study of Human Nature (2018). After a general presentation of the book I mostly focus on its first part, which deals with categories and concepts essential to the philosophy of the emotions. Next I pass on to two subsequent parts of the book devoted to particular emotions. After a brief overview I say more, by way of exemplification, on the chapter on love. I end with a final assessment.

In this paper I adopt Aquinas’ explanation of passivity and activity by means of acts remaining in the agent and acts passing over into external matter. I use it to propose a divide between immanent-type and transcendent-type acts. I then touch upon a grammatical distinction between three kinds of verbs. To argue for the activity and passivity of affectivity I refer to the group that includes acts of transcendent-type and whose verbs in both voices possess affective meaning. In the end I focus on cases in which an act of affective f-ing is mirrored in its object as being affectively f-ed.