Philosophical concept

Affects

Affects are variations in the body’s power to act and the ideas of those variations in the mind.

Works
236
Passages
4,540
Thinkers
46
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Affects are variations in the body’s power to act and the ideas of those variations in the mind.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 4,540 passages across 236 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: affect, affects, affectus, passions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  15. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  16. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 50 passages
  17. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  18. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  25. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  26. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  27. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  28. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages