PASSION

The French root of passion, passus, is "to suffer." The more archaic meaning of the term "passion," thus, is to endure pain, tortures, or the like. More specifically, usually when capitalized, it refers to the suffering of Christ on the cross, or, more generally, his suffering during the time between the Last Supper and his death. Passion, from this root, has come to mean, generally, an extreme emotion, signified by violent and intense agitation. Passion, whether we speak of fear, hate, love, or joy, always represents an extreme, focused involvement with a project in the world. This involvement may include either extreme repulsion, such as hate, or extreme desire, such as with love. With passion, one is stirred to ones depths. In this sense, passion seems to take on the quality of a more extreme version of 'emotion.' With passion, one could say, we are more strongly 'moved' by a particular emotion. Passion seems to speak to the depth of our commitment to a given project in the world.
So far, I have been lead to the following conclusions:
1. Mood is the "self-finding" which exists in the mode of the actual.
2. "Feeling" is the implict, "felt sense" of one's mood prior to making it explicitly known.
3. "Emotion" is the agitation which emerges with the coming-to-being of a potential movement. Thus, in a certain way, we can understand "emotion" as a tension between the mode of the actual and the mode of the possible. How I find myself in the mode of the actual (mood) will determine how my thrown projects, as the mode of the possible (understanding), are coming along. This tension between actuality and possibility, which is emotion, will, depending on the circumstances, hold certain dispositions toward potential movements toward or away from entities in the world.
4. Passion appears to involve, like 'emotion,' a 'movement,' but in the extreme.

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