Acedia

The Acedia [ ake: d' ia] ( Latinized from Greek ἀκήδεια ' carelessness, negligence, Not Make Want ' by κῆδος ' concern ') is according to theological teaching one of the seven root sins or capital vices. A German -language equivalent is difficult to find, the concept of " inertia of the heart" but likely meant the much closer than the often relied on the concept of laziness. To Acedia also includes a state of mind within the Bedeutungshofs of sadness, melancholy and weariness.

The six "daughters" of acedia ( metastases acediæ ) are by Gregory Thomas Aquinas:

• Malitia ( malice )
• Rancor ( resentment, rebellion )
• Pusillanimitas ( pusillanimity )
• Desperatio ( despair )
• Torpor about Praecepta ( blunt indifference to the commandments and regulations)
• Vagatio mentis about illicita ( curving of the mind in the direction of illegal or inappropriate )

The German philosopher Josef Pieper saw the tenor of acedia doctrine that "man is the claim fail, which is given with his own dignity ( ... ) that man his own being ultimately does not agree. "