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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

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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

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Learning theory

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • John Donne saw passibility as the essential feature distinguishing the human from the divine.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ T. Reiss, Mirages of the Selfe (Stanford 2003) p. 162
  2. ^ T. Reiss, Mirages of the Selfe (Stanford 2003) p. 212
  3. ^ P Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Edinburgh 2019) p. 49
  4. ^ P Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Edinburgh 2019) p. 104
  5. ^ W-M Roth, Passibility (2011) p. 248 and p. 21
  6. ^ K Wurth, Musically Sublime (2009) p. 104
  7. ^ M Scherzinger, Music in Contemporary Philosophy (2016) p. 86
  8. ^ P Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Edinburgh 2019) p 106

Further Reading

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  • P Gavriluyk, The Suffering of the Impassible God (Oxford 2004)
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