Pathos vs Eros - What's the difference?
pathos | eros |
The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:
(rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
(theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power
Physical love; sexual desire
a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else
(psychiatry) libido
(psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive
As nouns the difference between pathos and eros
is that pathos is pathos while eros is eros (physical love).pathos
English
Noun
- His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.