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Aquinas on passions and contemporary view of emotion
KILBERGR, Pavel
In the first part, this thesis deals with description of concept of passions in Summa theologica from Thomas Aquinas. Further in two subsequent parts, the concept of passions is compared with attitudes to emotions within psychological discourse. Firstly, there is being described a manner of men´s cognitive abilities in the thesis and also there is being separated rational from sensory cognition which evokes in fact the reaction, to wit: passions. These are divided into two parts according to Aquinas. The first part contains concupiscible passions which rise in a direct response to a stimulus leading to achieving success. The second part called irascible has its aim in surmounting problems and difficulties. Secondly, the thesis describes theories of emotions and sorts them according to psychological attitudes. Finally, the theories of emotions are compared to the concept of emotions by Aquinas in the final part and consequently the congruence is being sought.

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