Richard F Hassing

Cartesian Psychophysics and the Whole Nature of Man

On Descartes's Passions of the Soul

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Produktbeschreibung

This book describes Descartes's The Passions of the Soul as a 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 out at the world in immediate relation to it, but inward, at the self, its brain, and its history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781498522373
• ISBN-10: 1498522378
• Artikelnr.: 48893993

Autorenporträt

Richard F. Hassing is research associate professor in the School of Philosophy at Catholic University.

Inhaltsangabe

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) Interim Conclusions: "the Whole Nature of Man" or Descartes's Final
Dualism 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  Descartes: Concepts Engineer