The Academy’s interest in the emotions appears in some passages of Aristotle’s early logical writings. In Topics 4.5, 126a8–10, he exemplifies a topical rule by stating that ‘shame exists in the reasoning part, fear in the spirited part, distress in the appetitive part, for pleasure is also in this, and anger in the spirited part’. In Topics 2.7, 113a35–b3, the appetitive faculty and the spirited faculty are said to have contrar y acts. It is suggested that one should place love within the spirited faculty, since its contrary, hatred