Thursday, January 21, 2010

Philosophy and the Passions: Towards a History of Human Nature


  Philosophy and the Passions: Towards a History of Human Nature


Philosophy and the Passions: Towards a History of Human Nature
 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press |  2000 | ISBN: 0271020326 

A wide-ranging exegesis that systematically traces the history of philosophical conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant and Freud. It asks whether passion tortures people because it blinds them.


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