UID:
almafu_9959233392402883
Format:
1 online resource (329 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-159779-1
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9786612051838
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0-19-151912-X
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1-282-05183-0
Content:
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.
Note:
Several parts of this book were given as seminar papers.
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""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Plates""; ""Note on the Text""; ""1. Introduction: The Passions and Philosophy""; ""Part I""; ""2. Passion and Action in Aristotle""; ""Activity and Passivity in Aristotle's Metaphysics""; ""Activity and Passivity in the Aristotelian Soul""; ""3. Passion and Action in Aquinas""; ""Activity and Passivity in Thomist Metaphysics""; ""Activity and Passivity in the Thomist Soul""; ""4. Post-Aristotelian Passion and Action""; ""Rejecting the Aristotelian Analysis of the Passions""; ""Rethinking Passion and Action""; ""Part II""
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""5. Negotiating the Divide: Descartes and Malebranche""""The Cartesian Soul""; ""Malebranche's Relocation of the Passions""; ""Passion and Volition""; ""6. Mental and Bodily Passions Identified: Hobbes and Spinoza""; ""Hobbes's Analysis of Thinking as Motion""; ""Passions as Appetites""; ""Spinoza on the Identity of Body and Mind""; ""Passions and Conatus""; ""Part III""; ""7. Passion and Error""; ""Error and Projection""; ""Errors of Time and Scale""; ""Error as Inconstancy""; ""8. Dispassionate Scientia""; ""Sensible and Intelligible Ideas""; ""Intellectual Emotions""
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""Descartes: Joyful Volition""""Spinoza: Joyful Understanding""; ""9. The Value of Persuasion""; ""Knowledge and Power""; ""The Thorny Rule of Reason""; ""10. Knowledge as Emotion""; ""Knowledge as Will""; ""Love as the Highest Kind of Knowledge""; ""Knowledge, Love and Power""; ""Part IV""; ""11. Conflicting Forces: The Cartesian Theory of Action""; ""Volition, Passion and Action""; ""Changing Antecedents of Action""; ""12. Deliberating with the Passions""; ""An Integrated Mind and Voluntary Action""; ""The Case for Volitions""; ""The Decline of Active and Passive Thoughts""
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""Bibliography""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-825013-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-823674-3
Language:
English
