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Passibility is the capacity to experience suffering, an openness to experience, a quality which has been central to changing interpretations of personality, from medieval to modern times.
Personality[edit]
Classical thought counterposed to the Stoic ideal of Impassibility an alternative view of personality, that of experiential engagement with multiple circles of social reality.[1] Galen might stress the material aspect of such engagement, Justinian the socio-legal,[2] Cicero one's various roles and social obligations:[3] the quality of openness and passibility was common to them all.
The transition to modernity saw Descartes's vision of the self as a detached autonomous consciousness, prior to political, human, and bodily activity and exchange, increasingly replace passibility as a central metaphor for the self.[4]
Other applications[edit]
Learning theory[edit]
- Wolff-Michael Roth argues that passibility through sensation must inevitably precede Constructivism in human learning: it is cognition via passibility that brings the emotional element into learning.[5]
Music[edit]
- Lyotard saw the convergence of listening to music with a sense of belonging as creating a state of passibility:[6] what he called obedient listening necessarily entailed experiencing passibility.[7]
Religion[edit]
- John Donne saw passibility as the essential feature distinguishing the human from the divine.[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ T. Reiss, Mirages of the Selfe (Stanford 2003) p. 162
- ^ T. Reiss, Mirages of the Selfe (Stanford 2003) p. 212
- ^ P Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Edinburgh 2019) p. 49
- ^ P Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Edinburgh 2019) p. 104
- ^ W-M Roth, Passibility (2011) p. 248 and p. 21
- ^ K Wurth, Musically Sublime (2009) p. 104
- ^ M Scherzinger, Music in Contemporary Philosophy (2016) p. 86
- ^ P Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Edinburgh 2019) p 106
Further Reading[edit]
- P Gavriluyk, The Suffering of the Impassible God (Oxford 2004)