Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy

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Today's episode will be an interview about emotions in the Renaissance with Sabrina Eversmaia,

who is Associate Professor for Philosophy at the University of Kofunhagen.

Hi Sabrina, thanks for coming on the program.

Hi, Peter, thanks for having me here.

Let's start where the humanists, I would want us to start which is with Latin

and in particular the Latin terminology that's at stake here.

We're going to be talking about the emotions at least that's what I just said but the word emotion the like it means passions. So is it really right to say that we're talking about a

theory of the emotions here when they talk about Paciones? Well I think that's a

good question although a tricky one, of course.

The word emotion itself was not really in use during the Renaissance,

so that came up later during the 17th century out of the French context.

And it was referring to a very specific sort of

passion so to say concerning the broad range of the terms so what is covered by the term

Paziones and what is covered by the term emotions. I think they don't really

fit completely although basically people were referring to the same mental things, right?

So we use today the term emotion to refer to mental states, like being in love, hating someone or being sad.

And these were also these kind of states that were investigated during the Renaissance

under the term of passions.

On the other hand, the modern term emotion is stricter and narrower.

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