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Hassing Richard F. <1944-> |
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Cartesian psychophysics and the whole nature of man : on Descartes's passions of the soul / / Richard F. Hassing |
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Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mind and body - History - 17th century |
Soul - Christianity - History of doctrines - 17th century |
Emotions - History - 17th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Background: What Was Rejected?; 2 Early Cartesian Psychophysics: The Treatise of Man; 3 Baseline Teleology: Sensation and the Teaching of Nature in Meditation 6; 4 Human Difference: Speech and the "True Man" in Discourse 5; 5 The Passions of the Soul, Part I, aa. 1-44: General Theory of the Passions (the Use of Physics); 6 The Passions of the Soul, Part I, aa. 45-50: The Soul's Power in Relation to Its Passions (Leaving Physics Behind) |
7 The Passions of the Soul, Part II, aa. 51-67: The Causes, Use, and Derivation of the Principal Passions (to the Standpoint of the Self-Conscious I)8 Art. 68: On Descartes's Rejection of the Distinction between Concupiscible and Irascible Appetites (art. 47, continued); 9 Arts. 144-146: Fortune, Providence, and the Regulation of Desire (a Theological Accompaniment to the Self-Conscious I); 10 On Generosity and the Meaning of Cartesian Individualism (Wholes, Parts, and the Redirection of Thumos) |
11 Gravitas: Autobiography of a Childhood but Persistent Prejudice (the Psychogenesis of Anthropomorphism)Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book describes Descartes's The Passions of the Soul as a |
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foundational work of the Enlightenment, a precursor of later notions of the historicity of the human, and the first psychology of modern type: to understand and heal ourselves, we look not outward at the world in immediate relation to it, but inward, at the self, its brain, and its past history. Special attention is given to Descartes's account of imagination and its problematic impact on passion and volition. |
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