ABSTRACT
While Aristotle's treatment of emotion has in recent years received considerable attention, Theophrastus’ work on the same subject has been mostly ignored. Theophrastus follows Aristotle in holding that anger, fear, and other similar emotions are complex phenomena involving belief, desire, bodily movement, and sensation. The evidence for Theophrastus is contained in several different texts but, taken together, these texts are adequate to support the claim that Theophrastus followed Aristotle and adopted a complex view of emotional response. Theophrastus’ primary concern is to discourage angry men from hasty action. Theophrastus followed Aristotle in holding a complex view of emotional response. Theophrastus uses degree of difference to distinguish between different kinds of date-palm.
