Meaning
Passion or suffering; an irrational and unnatural movement of the soul.
In practice: Disturbing emotions like anger, fear, or lust that cloud reason.
Examples & notes
- The Stoics sought to eradicate pathē to reach a state of apatheia.
- A pathos is a judgment that an indifferent thing is actually a good or an evil.
Seen in
Zeno of Citium
Chrysippus