The passions are the feelings, the emotions or the movements of the sensible appetite – natural components of human psychology – which incline a person to act or not to act in view of what is perceived as good or evil. The principal passions are love and hatred, desire and fear, joy, sadness, and anger. The chief passion is love which is drawn by the attraction of the good. One can only love what is good, real or apparent.
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1762. The human person is ordered to beatitude by his deliberate acts: the passions or feelings he experiences can dispose him to it and contribute to it.
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1763. The term "passions" belongs to the Christian patrimony. Feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil.
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1764. The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind. Our Lord called man's heart the source from which the passions spring.40
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1765. There are many passions. the most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. the apprehension of evil causes hatred, aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some present evil, or in the anger that resists it.
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1766. "To love is to will the good of another."41All other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good. Only the good can be loved.42Passions "are evil if love is evil and good if it is good."43
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1771. The term "passions" refers to the affections or the feelings. By his emotions man intuits the good and suspects evil.
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1772. The principal passions are love and hatred, desire and fear, joy, sadness, and anger.
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