Passion and action : the emotions in seventeenth-century philosophy

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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Main Author: James, Susan, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects:
Emotions (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern > 17th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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