ABSTRACT
WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS HAVE CHIEFLY TREATED emotions or passions as being in opposition to reason (cf. Pott, 1992; Solomon, 1976). In this dualist approach emotions have been described as irrational, involuntary or bodily forces, as ‘diseases of the soul’. Although not all philosophers have advocated this line of thought, the dichotomy between passion and ratio has underlied Western philosophical thought ever since Plato and Socrates. …
