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Passion and action : the emotions in seventeenth-century philosophy / Susan James.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0198236743 (alk. paper)
  • 9780198236740 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 128.37 J27P
LOC classification:
  • B815 .J36 1997
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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Several parts of this book were given as seminar papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-309) and index.

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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