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Passion and Action is an exploration of the role of the passions in seventeenth-century thought. Susan James offers fresh readings of a broad range of thinkers, including such canonical figures as Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke, and shows that a full understanding of their philosophies must take account of their interpretations of our affective life. This ground-breaking study throws new light upon the shaping of our ideas about the mind, knowledge, and action, and provides a historical context for burgeoning current debates about the emotions.
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| Keywords | Emotions (Philosophy Philosophy, Modern |
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| Reprint years | 1999 |
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| Call number | B815.J36 1997 |
| ISBN(s) | 0198236743 9780198236740 9780198250135 0198250134 |
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Introduction: The Passions and Philosophy
This introductory chapter surveys some of the central themes that shaped seventeenth‐century discussions of the role of the passions in body and mind, and in reasoning and action, with which the book as a whole is concerned. It stresses that although the passions were regarded as turbulent... see more
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