《Passion and Action》

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作者: James, Susan
出版社: Oxford University Press
副标题: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
出版年: 2000-3-16
页数: 328
定价: GBP 31.99
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780198250135

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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...

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.

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苏珊·詹姆斯，伦敦大学伯克贝克学院哲学系教授，到剑桥大学获学士、硕士和博士学位，曾到康涅狄格大学任教两年，后返回剑桥大学戈登学院任哲学系讲师，2000年加入伯克贝克学院，先后到以色列、德国、澳大利亚和美国开展研究工作，2013-2014年到普林斯顿大学人类价值研究中心任劳伦斯·S.洛克菲勒访问院士。

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Passions and Philosophy
PART I

2. Passion and Action in Aristotle
3. Passion and Action in Aquinas
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Passions and Philosophy
PART I

2. Passion and Action in Aristotle
3. Passion and Action in Aquinas
4. Post-Aristotelian Action and Passion
PART II

5. Negotiating the Divide: Descartes and Malebranche
6. Mental and Bodily Passions Identified: Hobbes and Spinoza
PART III

7. Passion and Error
8. Dispassionate Scientia
9. The Value of Persuasion
10. Knowledge as Emotion
PART IV

11. Conflicting Forces: The Cartesian Theory of Action
12. Deliberating with the Passions
Bibliography. Index.
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