On Descartes’s Passions of the Soul
by
Richard F. Hassing
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In The Passions of the Soul Descartes proclaims his intention to explain the passions “only as a Physicist,” and titles Part I “About the passions in general, and incidentally about the whole nature of man”—not an incidental item. Two questions orient the present inquiry: What does Descartes...