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Eupatheia

Eupatheia

The well-ordered, reason-aligned emotions of the Sage, grounded in correct judgments and free from subjugation to passions.

Eupatheia (from eu = good, well-ordered + pathos = feeling) refers, in contrast to the Pathē, to those affective states available to the Sage because they arise from true judgments about good and evil. The Sage experiences these emotions without being ruled by them. They represent the Stoic alternative to passion: feeling without false belief, without submission to external goods.