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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
A commonplace criticism of Buddhist and other traditions, including the Christian, is that they appear to see the elimination rather than the transmutation of the passions as a basic desideratum. This unfortunate misconception, which is not wholly without foundation – there are phases in various traditions which seem all too vulnerable – fails to recognize that it is a particular subgroup of human emotion that is problematic, the klesas, the unskilful roots from which other passions flow; but it doesn’t follow that they are to be repressed or ‘excised’. We could reserve the expression ‘the passions’ for this negative subgroup, although Descartes, Hume, and other Early Modern philosophers use the term more generically to refer to ‘emotions’ tout court and Hume himself distinguishes between the calm and the violent passions.
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