Early modern philosophy has shown a great interest in the concept of emotions, starting with Aristotle, whose Rhetoric details an insightful theory of emotion which “in many ways anticipates contemporary theories” (Solomon 2003: 5). He argued that the nature of emotion lies in a strong moral belief about how others should behave, and involves the perception of a situation dominated by a desire. This is evidently shown in his analysis of ANGER where ANGER is characterized as the desire for revenge. Two thousand years later, Descartes (1649) defined emotions (which is named ‘passions’...