Thread:Angelo Gabrini/@comment-179.234.141.93-20170214023304/@comment-4436931-20170214060757

179.234.141.93 wrote: the old authority in conjunction with Vainglory, should be Tristitia, also taking into consideration the history of sins. I left an explanation as to why on Hector's comment page. If possible take a look, because the i'm fairly sure Acedia is not the correct name for it.

Ok, let's take a look at it:

Tristitia was one of the old sins along with vainglory

According to Wikipedia, it lists acedia and not tristitia as a historical sin, which wouldn't make sense if it should be tristitia since otherwise it should be tristitia in that section and not acedia. Also, in the same section, it states "It is related to melancholy: acedia describes the behaviour and melancholy suggests the emotion producing it"

Also, from the page for sloth, "Mentally, acedia, has a number of distinctive components of which the most important is affectlessness, a lack of any feeling about self or other, a mind-state that gives rise to boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive inert or sluggish mentation, Physically, acedia is fundamentally associated with a cessation of motion and an indifference to work; it finds expression in laziness, idleness, and indolence". This would suggest that the author split the mental part as acedia and the physical part as sloth

The problem, is that if his is named Acedia it doesn't make sense, since Acedia is literally the latin name for sloth.

A quick Latin/English translation shows that acedia does not translate to sloth, here are the results for that. Tristitia comes out as sadness. I did check these across multiple translators just in case. By your reasoning, it wouldn't make sense for tristitia to be used either since it's listed to also be a valid alternative for sloth

Based on the above, I don't think it's wise to treat acedia and sloth as the same thing in this situation