Aristotle's List of
Emotions
Anger: An impulse to revenge that
shall be evident, and caused by an obvious,
unjustified slight with respect
to the individual or his friends. Slights have three
species: contempt, spite, and
insolence.
Mildness: The settling down and quieting of
anger.
Love: Wishing for a person those
things which you consider to be good—wishing them
for his sake and not your
own--and tending so far as you can to affect them.
Enmity (hatred): Whereas anger is
excited by offences that concern the individual,
enmity may arise without regard
to the individual as such. Anger is directed
against the individual, hatred
is directed against the class as well.
Fear: A pain or disturbance arising from a
mental image of impending evil of a painful
or destructive
sort.
Confidence: The opposite of fear. Confidence is the hope (anticipation),
accompanied
by a mental image, of things
conducive to safety as being near at hand, while
causes of fear seem to be either
non-existent or far away.
Shame: A pain or disturbance
regarding that class of evils, in the present, past, or future,
which we think will tend to our discredit.
Shamelessness: A certain contempt or
indifference regarding the said evils.
Benevolence: The emotion toward
disinterested kindness in doing or returning good to
another or to all others; the same term represents the kind action as an
action; or
the kind thing done considered
as a result.
Pity: A sense of pain at what we take to be an
evil of a destructive or painful kind, which
befalls one who does not deserve it, which we think we ourselves or some
one
allied to us might likewise
suffer, and when this possibility seems near at hand.
Indignation: A pain at the sight of
undeserved good fortune.
Envy: A disturbing pain directed at
the good fortune of an equal. The
pain is felt not
because one desires something,
but because the other persons have it.
Emulation: A pain at what we take to be
the presence, in the case. of persons who are by
nature like us, of goods that are desirable and are possible for us to
attain--a pain
felt, not because the other
persons have these goods, but because we do not have them as
well.
Contempt: The antithesis of emulation
(Persons who are in a position to emulate or to be
emulated must tend to feel
contempt for those who are subject to any evils [defects and
disadvantages] that are opposite
to the goods arousing emulation, and to feel it with
respect to these
evils).