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Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre. Karen Vintges delineates Beauvoir's i
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Pages: 328
Authors: Susan James
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-16 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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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 reasoni
Philosophy and the Passions
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Authors: Michel Meyer
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The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of exces
Passions of the Soul
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: René Descartes
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Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Robert C. Solomon
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This text argues that justice is a virtue which everyone shares - a function of personal character and not just of government or economic planning. It uses exam