The third passion, pleasure, comes from the object desired by appetite, or by avoiding fear; and the fourth passion is distress which is a result of failing to achieve the object of our appetite or experiencing the fearful stimuli (ibid.). Tied in with passions is reason, which is seen as the faculty capable of attaining knowledge and discerning truth, achieving this is a main tenet of Stoicism. The use of passions in stoic texts are used mostly in conveyance with negative connotations to denote occasions which result in a hindrance of the use of reason, and it comes from this that these passions (or emotions) are perceived by most stoics to be considered
The third passion, pleasure, comes from the object desired by appetite, or by avoiding fear; and the fourth passion is distress which is a result of failing to achieve the object of our appetite or experiencing the fearful stimuli (ibid.). Tied in with passions is reason, which is seen as the faculty capable of attaining knowledge and discerning truth, achieving this is a main tenet of Stoicism. The use of passions in stoic texts are used mostly in conveyance with negative connotations to denote occasions which result in a hindrance of the use of reason, and it comes from this that these passions (or emotions) are perceived by most stoics to be considered