Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature - Literature and Philosophy - Michel Meyer - Books - Pennsylvania State University Press - 9780271020310 - November 1, 2000
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Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature - Literature and Philosophy


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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.


368 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 1, 2000
ISBN13 9780271020310
Publishers Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 159 × 234 × 31 mm   ·   630 g
Translator Barsky, Robert F. (Univ. of Western Ontario)

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