ABSTRACT
This book provides a valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century. The contributors show that fundamental questions about the nature of wisdom, goodness and beauty were understood in terms of the contrast between reason and passions in this era. Those with an interest in philosophy , the history of medicene, and women's studies will find this collection a fascinating read.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |31 pages
The nature of the passions
part |65 pages
The symbolism of the passions
part |52 pages
The physiology of the passions
chapter |32 pages
Controlling the passions
Passion, memory, and the moral physiology of self in seventeenth-century neurophilosophy
chapter |18 pages
Restraining the passions
Hydropneumatics and hierarchy in the philosophy of Thomas Willis