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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions

[limits and ways of controlling emotions]

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Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Plato, by Goldie]
Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos on Plato]
There is a mean of feelings, as in our responses to the good or bad fortune of others [Aristotle]
Nearly all the good and bad states of character are concerned with feelings [Aristotle]
Stoics want to suppress emotions, but Spinoza overcomes them with higher emotions [Spinoza, by Stewart,M]
An emotion comes more under our control in proportion to how well it is known to us [Spinoza]
Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B]
The only way we can control our emotions is by manipulating the outside world that influences them [Carter,R]
Learning an evaluative property like 'dangerous' is also learning an emotion [Goldie]
We call emotions 'passions' because they are not as controlled as we would like [Goldie]
Emotional control is hard, but we are responsible for our emotions over long time periods [Goldie]
Emotions are not easily changed, as new knowledge makes little difference, and akrasia is possible [Goldie]
Emotional control is less concerned with emotional incidents, and more with emotional tendencies [Goldie]