{3de02 laetitia}

Meaning | Pleasure, an emotion (affectus) state change of human being to greater perfection
Subsets (kinds) | Amor, spes, gaudium, acquiescentia, gloria (linked to in equivalence claim section below)
Related concepts | Tristitia (emotion, affectus, state change of human being to less perfection)
Occurrence | [geomap] Preoccurs from {3p15}

{4p63c bonum directe malum indirecte} ...Pleasurable emotions can be passive but those pleasurable emotions that spring from reason can not...
Proof.-Desire which springs from reason can only spring from a pleasurable emotion, wherein the mind is not passive ... | DEMONSTRATIO: Nam cupiditas quae ex ratione oritur, ex solo laetitiae affectu quae passio non est, oriri potest ...

Equivalence claims involving laetitia
{3p30} | [About humans] 1. be affected by pleasure, accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause 2. regard oneself with pleasure. | [De hominum] 1. laetitia concomitante idea sui tanquam causa afficietur 2. se ipsum cum laetitia contemplabitur
{3p34} | 1. we regard ourselves with pleasure 2. we feel honoured | 1. laetitia nosmet contemplabimur 2. gloriabimur.
{3de02} | 1. Pleasure 2. the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection | 1. Laetitia 2. hominis transitio a minore ad majorem perfectionem
{3de06} [notes] | 1. Love 2. pleasure, accompanied by the idea of an external cause | 1. Amor 2. laetitia concomitante idea causae externae.
{3de12} | 1. Hope 2. an inconstant pleasure, arising from the idea of something past or future, whereof we to a certain extent doubt the issue. | 1. Spes 2. inconstans laetitia orta ex idea rei futurae vel [excl non-exh] praeterit de cujus eventu aliquatenus dubitamus.
{3de16} | 1. Joy 2. pleasure accompanied by the idea of something past, which has had an issue beyond our hope. | 1. Gaudium 2. laetitia concomitante idea rei praeterit quae praeter spem evenit.
{3de25} | 1. Self-approval 2. pleasure arising from a man's contemplation of himself and his own power of action. | 1.Acquiescentia in se ipso 2. laetitia orta ex eo quod homo se ipsum suamque agendi potentiam contemplatur.
{3de30} | 1. Honour 2. pleasure accompanied by the idea of some action of our own, which we imagine to be praised by others. | 1. Gloria 2. laetitia concomitante idea alicujus nostrae actionis quam alios laudare imaginamur.