Letter to Timothy: Feelings, Emotions, and Passions

April 15, 1981 Dear Timothy, Perhaps at this point a brief review is in order concerning what we have discussed so far about the emotions. You will recall that we defined all emotions in terms of feelings of like and dislike. We also said that all the emotions could be roughly divided into two main classes: desires and emotions proper. In our last letter we finished our discussion of desires, and the time has come to turn to emotions -- what they are and how they work within us. While...