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Anger (n.) excuses nothing: a violent act may have felt like a flood of rage, but the adult who did it is no less accountable.
Assent (n.) is the event that turns a thought into a belief: the mind says yes or no to how things seem.
Delight (n.) is the mind swelling up in defiance of reason because it has just come to believe that some good is at hand.
Desire (n.) makes routine acts urgent, as if your whole self were pressing outward until the prize is claimed or the lost child held at last.
Distress (n.) is the mind contracting against reason, set off by a fresh belief that something evil is here and that shrinking from it is fitting.
Emotion (n.) is a kind of judgment, and judgments can be false; a feeling built on a falsehood should go, not to make us unresponsive but to stop us believing what is untrue.
Emotion (n.) in a grown and healthy mind is up to us exactly as our actions are: we have reasons for it, even when we cannot say what they are.
Emotion (n.) is an impulse that has gone too far.
Eupatheia (n.) is the good emotion: the awe, joy, love and longing that survive in a mind that has stopped believing falsehoods.
Fear (n.) is not the pounding heart, which happy excitement can produce just as well; it is the judgment that something bad is about to happen.
Misogyny (n.) is at root a single deep-seated belief, that women are bad, which then breaks out in a whole range of emotions about women.
Ordinary mind (n.) is a pushover, yielding to impressions that the wise would push back against.