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The Logismoiv as Exempla of Evil in Evagrius Ponticus’ Thought: A Comparison With the Stoicism
Silvia Gullino
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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2026.01.003
Universita Degli Studi Di Padova, Padova, Italy
Evagrius Ponticus’ thought can be interesting in order to examine the Christian treatment of the pathe in relation to the capital sins. In fact, this philosopher devoted himself, among other things, to the encoding of the spiritual exercises necessary to fight with the emotions. But he was, above all, the author of a Practical Treatise, in which theorized in detail the deadly sins, inquiring about what Origen, following the Stoics, had called “first movement” and trying to determine the best way to achieve apatheia. In particular, Evagrius identified the existence of eight thoughts (logismoi), who attacked the man: the thought of the throat, of fornication, avarice, anxiety, anger, listless depression, vanity or conceit and pride. In Later Christian thinkers these eight thoughts flowed to the seven Sins, encoded after a series of adjustments. The eight logismoi of Evagrius were connected to the pathe. But these logismoi were not considered pathe tout court, as evidenced by their being called by him “bad logismoi” or propathe. The purpose of my paper is to examine the treatment of pathe and capital sins in Evagrius Ponticus, in order to emphasize how he, distinguishing between pathe and propathe, wanted to distinguish two kinds of evil.
Evagrius Ponticus, Stoic philosophy, passions, pre-passions, pathos
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