Descartes, for instance, singled out Aquinas's division of the passions into the concupiscible and irascible for express and explicit criticism. |
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The most important division is that between concupiscible and irascible passions. |
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The irascible passions are thus parasitic on the concupiscible, and come into play only when there seems to be some impediment to the good or evil for which we feel concupiscible passions of love or hatred. |
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Firstly, love is a basic emotion of the concupiscible appetite, which is a sensitive appetite that man has in common with non-rational animals. |
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