Passion and action : the emotions in seventeenth-century philosophy /
Passion and Action is an exploration of the role of the emotions in early modern thought. Susan James offers fresh readings of a broad range of thinkers, including such canonical figures as Hobbes, Descartes, Pascal and Locke.
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Passions and Philosophy
- 2. Passion and Action in Aristotle
- 3. Passion and Action in Aquinas
- 4. Post-Aristotelian Passion and Action
- 5. Negotiating the Divide: Descartes and Malebranche
- 6. Mental and Bodily Passions Identified: Hobbes and Spinoza
- 7. Passion and Error
- 8. Dispassionate Scientia
- 9. The Value of Persuasion
- 10. Knowledge as Emotion
- 11. Conflicting Forces: The Cartesian Theory of Action
- 12. Deliberating with the Passions.