Towards Hilaritas : A Study of the Mind-Body Union, the Passions and the Mastery of the Passions in Descartes and Spinoza

The study aims to explain the role of external causes in René Descartes’s (1594–1650) and Benedictus de Spinoza’s (1632–1677) accounts of the mastery of the passions. It consists in three parts: the mind-body union, the passions and their classification, and the mastery of the passions. In the firs...

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Main Author: Koivuniemi, Minna
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Filosofiska institutionen 2008
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