apatheia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia). Doublet of apathy.

Noun

apatheia (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) A state of mind in Stoic philosophy in which one is free from emotional disturbance; the freedom from all passions.
   • 2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159:

     But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?

Related terms

• apathy
• metriopatheia

Translations

freedom from emotional disturbance, in Stoic philosophy

• Finnish: apatheia
• Portuguese: apatia (pt) f
• Russian: апатия (ru) f (apatija)

See also

• equanimity