The Passions of the Soul
work by Descartes
Also known as: “Traité des passions de l’âme”
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discussed in biography
- In René Descartes: Physics, physiology, and morals
Despite such arguments, in his Passions of the Soul (1649), which he dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden (reigned 1644–54), Descartes holds that most bodily actions are determined by external material causes.
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significance in history of philosophy
- In Western philosophy: The rationalism of Descartes
…Principles of Philosophy (1644) and The Passions of the Soul (1649), and a mathematical bias that dominates the theory of method in Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1701) and the metaphysics of the Meditations on the First Philosophy (1642). But it is the mathematical theme that clearly predominates…
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