Passion In Philosophy

Author : Michel Meyer,Robert F. Barsky
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271020310

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Philosophy and the Passions by Michel Meyer,Robert F. Barsky Pdf

The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.In this book, noted European philosopher Michel Meyer offers a wide-ranging exegesis, the first of its kind, that systematically retraces the history of philosophic conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, and Freud. The great ruptures that led to passion's condemnation as sin, and to its romantic exultation as the truth of existence, are meticulously registered and the logic governing them astutely explicated.Meyer thus provides new insight into an age-old dilemma: Does passion torture people because it blinds them, or, on the contrary, does it permit them to apprehend who and what we really are?

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624661983

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Passions of the Soul by René Descartes Pdf

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum

Author : Susan James
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519123

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Passion and Action by Susan James Pdf

Passion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was central to the theories of many major figures, including Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke. Yet little attention has been paid to this topic in studies of early modern thought. Susan James surveys the inheritance of ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, then shows how these were incorporated into new philosophical theories in the course of the seventeenth century. She examines the relation of the emotions to will, knowledge, understanding, desire, and power, offering fresh analyses and interpretations of a broad range of texts by little-known writers as well as canonical figures, and establishing that a full understanding of these authors must take account of their discussions of our affective life. Passion and Action also addresses current debates, particularly those within feminist philosophy, about the embodied character of thinking and the relation between emotion and knowledge. This ground-breaking study throws new light upon the shaping of our ideas about the mind, and provides a historical context for burgeoning contemporary investigations of the emotions.

Author : Robert C. Solomon,Kathleen M. Higgins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195112091

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A Passion for Wisdom by Robert C. Solomon,Kathleen M. Higgins Pdf

A study of the world's great ideas from Plato and Aquinas to William James and Simone de Beauvoir. Aimed at those who wish to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy.

Author : Remo Bodei
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781487517793

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Geometry of the Passions by Remo Bodei Pdf

The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision. By means of a theoretical and historical analysis, Bodei interprets the relationship between passion and reason as a conflict between two complementary logics. Geometry of the Passions investigates the paradoxical conflict-collaboration between passions and reason, and between individual and political projects. Tracing the roles passion and reason have played throughout history, including in the political agendas of Descartes, Hobbes, and the French Jacobins, Geometry of the Passions reveals how passion and reason may be used as a vehicle for affirmation rather than self-enslavement.

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110874804X

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Passions and the Emotions: Volume 85 by Anthony O'Hear Pdf

This volume is based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017-18. It consists of fourteen original papers in which leading philosophers consider key concepts in the area, including those of passion and emotion, and their intentionality, as well as love, guilt, forgiveness, desire and regret. The relationships between the passions and religious belief and to aesthetics are also analysed, alongside the ethical and psychoanalytical implications of our emotions. Connexions between the passions and our reading of fiction and our response to developments in technology are considered, as is the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Nietzsche, William James and R. G. Collingwood. This book will be an essential compendium to contemporary work in the area.

Author : Kathleen Higgins,David Sherman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400746503

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Passion, Death, and Spirituality by Kathleen Higgins,David Sherman Pdf

Robert C. Solomon, who died in 2007, was Professor of Philosophy and Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business at the University of Texas, USA. As the first book comprehensively to examine the breadth of Solomon’s contribution to philosophy, this volume ranks as a vital addition to the literature. It includes a newly published transcript of Solomon’s last talk, which responded to Arindam Chakrabarti on the concept of revenge, as well as the considered views of prominent figures in the numerous subfields in which Solomon worked. The content analyses his perspectives on the philosophy of emotion, virtue, business ethics, and religion, in addition to philosophical history, existentialism, and the many other topics that held this prolific thinker’s attention. Solomon memorably defined philosophy itself as ‘the thoughtful love of life’, and despite the diversity of his output, he was most drawn by central questions about the meaning of life, the essential role that emotions play in finding that meaning, and the human imperative to seek ‘emotional integrity’, in which one’s thoughts, emotions, and actions all contribute to a coherent narrative. The essays included here draw attention to the interconnections between the issues Solomon addressed, and evince the manner in which he embodied that integrity, living a life at one with his philosophy. They emphasize the central themes of passion, ethics, and spirituality, which threaded through his work, and the way these ideas informed his views on how we should approach grief and death. The multiplicity of topics alone make this keystone work an enlightening read for a full spectrum of students of philosophy, providing much to ponder and recounting a subtle and shining example of the emotional integrity Solomon worked so hard to define.

Author : Vesa Hirvonen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402021186

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Passions in William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology by Vesa Hirvonen Pdf

This study is not only the first extensive analysis of passions or emotions in William Ockham's (c. 1285-1347) psychology, it also contains a detailed analysis of Ockham's little-known two-souls anthropology. The study shows how Ockham diverged from the traditional opinion of emotions in arguing that there were emotions in the will, not only in the lower part of the soul. Because of his new theory of the intellect and the will, Ockham believed that certain phenomena of the will were subjective reactions to occurrent phenomena and could therefore be treated as emotions. The book also discusses Ockham's approach to the traditional distinctions between amicable love and wanting love, and enjoyment and use, and to some other classical themes.

Author : Jacqueline Anne Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198729525

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Reflecting Subjects by Jacqueline Anne Taylor Pdf

Offers a reconstruction of Hume's social theory and examines his moral philosophy, account of social power, and system of ethics.

Author : Janice G. Raymond
Publisher : Spinifex Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 187675608X

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A Passion for Friends by Janice G. Raymond Pdf

This feminist classic explores the many manifestations of friendship between women and examines the ways women have created their own communities and destinies through friendship.

Author : Brian Treanor
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823232925

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A Passion for the Possible by Brian Treanor Pdf

Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a passion for the possibleexpressed in the hope that in spite of death, closure, and sedimentation, life is opened by superabundance, by how the world gives us much more than is possible. Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology is a phenomenology of human capacity, which gives onto the groundless ground of human being, namely, God. Thus the story of the capable man, beginning with original goodness held captive by a servile will and ending with the possibility of liberation and regeneration of the heart, underpins his passion for the more than possible. The essays in this volume trace the fluid movement between phenomenological and religious descriptions of the capable self that emerges across Ricoeur's oeuvre and establish points of connection for future developments that might draw inspiration from this body of thought.

Author : Karen Vintges
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253210704

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Philosophy as Passion by Karen Vintges Pdf

Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre. Karen Vintges delineates Beauvoir's independent, original ethics and philosophy, drawing on the moral philosophical treatises of the 1940's and 1950's along with The Second Sex, her novel The Mandarins, and autobiographical works.

Author : Jacques Brunschwig,Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521402026

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Passions and Perceptions by Jacques Brunschwig,Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

This volume considers the important contributions to philosophy made by the philosophers of the Hellenistic schools.

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:1036764373

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A Passion for Wisdom by Robert C. Solomon Pdf

Author : Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110260922

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Emotional Minds by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer Pdf

The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today’s research about the emotionality of the mind. The analyses of the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and many other thinkers collected in this volume offer new insights into the diversity and significance of philosophical reflections about emotions during the early modern era. A focus is placed on affective components in learning processes and the boundaries between emotions and reason.