Aquinas On The Emotions

Author : Diana Fritz Cates
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589017184

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Aquinas on the Emotions by Diana Fritz Cates Pdf

All of us want to be happy and live well. Sometimes intense emotions affect our happiness—and, in turn, our moral lives. Our emotions can have a significant impact on our perceptions of reality, the choices we make, and the ways in which we interact with others. Can we, as moral agents, have an effect on our emotions? Do we have any choice when it comes to our emotions? In Aquinas on the Emotions, Diana Fritz Cates shows how emotions are composed as embodied mental states. She identifies various factors, including religious beliefs, intuitions, images, and questions that can affect the formation and the course of a person's emotions. She attends to the appetitive as well as the cognitive dimension of emotion, both of which Aquinas interprets with flexibility. The result is a powerful study of Aquinas that is also a resource for readers who want to understand and cultivate the emotional dimension of their lives.

Author : Nicholas Emerson Lombardo
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813217970

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The Logic of Desire by Nicholas Emerson Lombardo Pdf

Focusing on the Summa theologiae, Nicholas Lombardo contributes to the recovery, reconstruction, and critique of Aquinas's account of emotion in dialogue with both the Thomist tradition and contemporary analytic philosophy

Author : Simo Knuuttila
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191532832

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Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy by Simo Knuuttila Pdf

Emotions are the focus of intense debate both in contemporary philosophy and psychology and increasingly also in the history of ideas. Simo Knuuttila presents a comprehensive survey of philosophical theories of emotion from Plato to Renaissance times, combining rigorous philosophical analysis with careful historical reconstruction. The first part of the book covers the conceptions of Plato and Aristotle and later ancient views from Stoicism to Neoplatonism and, in addition, their reception and transformation by early Christian thinkers from Clement and Origen to Augustine and Cassian. Knuuttila then proceeds to a discussion of ancient themes in medieval thought, and of new medieval conceptions, codified in the so-called faculty psychology from Avicenna to Aquinas, in thirteenth century taxonomies, and in the voluntarist approach of Duns Scotus, William Ockham, and their followers. Philosophers, classicists, historians of philosophy, historians of psychology, and anyone interested in emotion will find much to stimulate them in this fascinating book.

Author : Martin Pickavé,Lisa Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199579914

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Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy by Martin Pickavé,Lisa Shapiro Pdf

This volume explores emotion in medieval and early modern thought, and opens a contemporary debate on the way emotions figure in our cognitive lives. Thirteen original essays explore the key themes of emotion within the mind; the intentionality of emotions; emotions and action; and the role of emotion in self-understanding and social situations.

Author : Nicholas Kahm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813231570

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Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason by Nicholas Kahm Pdf

Author : Robert Miner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521897488

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Thomas Aquinas on the Passions by Robert Miner Pdf

Provides an understanding of Thomas Aquinas' account of the passions, the elemental forces that affect human happiness.

Author : Robert C. Miner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 0511517467

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Thomas Aquinas on the Passions by Robert C. Miner Pdf

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139436977

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From Passions to Emotions by Thomas Dixon Pdf

Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteenth-century theological psychologies and placing Charles Darwin and William James within a broader and more complex nineteenth-century setting, Thomas Dixon argues that this domination by one single descriptive category is not healthy. Overinclusivity of 'the emotions' hampers attempts to argue with any subtlety about the enormous range of mental states and stances of which humans are capable. This book is an important contribution to the debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has implications for contemporary debates.

Author : Dominik Perler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190905378

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Feelings Transformed by Dominik Perler Pdf

What are emotions? How do they arise? How do they relate to other mental and bodily states? And what is their specific structure? The book discusses these questions, focusing on medieval and early modern theories. It looks at a great number of authors, ranging from Aquinas to Spinoza, and shows that they gave sophisticated accounts of human emotions. They were particularly interested in the way we cope with our emotions: how we can change or perhaps even overcome them? To answer this question, medieval and early modern philosophers looked at the cognitive content of emotions, for they were all convinced that we need to work on that content if we want to change them. The book therefore pays particular attention to the intimate relationship between theories of emotions and theories of cognition. Moreover, the book emphasizes the importance of the metaphysical framework for medieval and early modern theories of emotions. It was a transformation of this framework that made new theories possible. Starting with an analysis of the Aristotelian framework, the book then looks at skeptical, dualist and monist frameworks, and it examines how the nature of emotions was explained in each of them. The discussion also takes the theological and scientific context into account, for changes in this context quite often gave rise to new problems - problems that concerned the love of God, the joy of resurrected souls, or the fear arising in a soul that is present in a body. All of these problems are examined on the basis of close textual analysis.

Author : Anastasia Philippa Scrutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441145772

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Thinking Through Feeling by Anastasia Philippa Scrutton Pdf

Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipotence and incorporeality. Passibilists seem to break with tradition by affirming divine emotionality, often focusing on the idea that God suffers with us. Contemporary philosophy of emotion reflects this divide. Some philosophers argue that emotions are voluntary and intelligent mental events, making them potentially compatible with omniscience and omnipotence. Others claim that emotions are involuntary and basically physiological, rendering them inconsistent with traditional divine attributes. Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility creates a three-way conversation between the debate in theology, contemporary philosophy of emotion, and pre-modern (particularly Augustinian and Thomist) conceptions of human affective experience. It also provides an exploration of the intelligence and value of the emotions of compassion, anger and jealousy.

Author : Eric D'Arcy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521029278

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Summa Theologiae: Volume 19, The Emotions by Eric D'Arcy Pdf

Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.

Author : Robert Miner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139479180

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Thomas Aquinas on the Passions by Robert Miner Pdf

The Summa Theologiae is Thomas Aquinas' undisputed masterwork, and it includes his thoughts on the elemental forces in human life. Feelings such as love, hatred, pleasure, pain, hope and despair were described by Aquinas as 'passions', representing the different ways in which happiness could be affected. But what causes the passions? What impact do they have on the person who suffers them? Can they be shaped and reshaped in order to better promote human flourishing? The aim of this book is to provide a better understanding of Aquinas' account of the passions. It identifies the Aristotelian influences that lie at the heart of the Summa Theologiae, and it enters into a dialogue with contemporary thinking about the nature of emotion. The study argues that Aquinas' work is still important today, and shows why for Aquinas both the understanding and attainment of happiness requires prolonged reflection on the passions.

Author : Elena Carrera
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252936

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Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 by Elena Carrera Pdf

Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 examines the Aristotelian and Galenic understandings of the ‘passions’ or ‘accidents of the soul’ as alterations of both mind and body across a wide range of medieval and early modern cultural discourses: Aquinas’s Summa, canonization inquests, medical and natural philosophical texts, drama, and the London Bills of Mortality. The essays in this collection focus on notions such as death from sorrow, physiological explanations of fear, physicians’ advice on the harmful and beneficial effects of anger and of sex, medical and philosophical constructions of the melancholic subject, and theological and medical discussions on the impact of music in moderating the passions and maintaining health. Contributors include: Nicole Archambeau, Elena Carrera, Penelope Gouk, Angus Gowland, Nicholas E. Lombardo, William F. MacLehose, Michael R. Solomon and Erin Sullivan.

Author : Steven J. Jensen
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813221458

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Living the Good Life by Steven J. Jensen Pdf

Living the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery and happiness.

Author : Alix Cohen,Robert Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198766858

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Thinking about the Emotions by Alix Cohen,Robert Stern Pdf

Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason. Fourteen leading philosophers here offer a broad survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions. The thinkers they discuss include Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Brentano, Stumpf, Scheler, Heidegger, and Sartre. Central issues include the taxonomy of the emotions; the distinction between emotions, passions, feelings and moods; the relation between the emotions and reason; the relationship between the self and the emotions. At a metaphilosophical level, the collection also raises issues about the value of historical study of the discipline, and what light it can shed on contemporary concerns. Thinking about the Emotions is a fascinating and illuminating collective study of how philosophers have grappled with this most intriguing part of our nature as beings who feel as well as think and act.