Emoción y virtud en Jenofonte

Abstract

: This work distinguishes between three types of psychological experience: desires that are stimulated by pleasure; emotions such as anger, gratitude, shame, and also fear, which involve valuations, whether prag-matic or ethical; and despondency or athumia , which is induced by a sense of helplessness and aporia. The first of these is governed by self-control, enkrateia or sôphrosunê , as the corresponding virtue. Emotions are subject to a different psychic