Feelings Transformed: Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 1st Edition

Feelings Transformed: Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780199383481,0199383480,9780190905378, 0190905379

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190905379
• ISBN-13: 9780190905378
• Author: Dominik Perler

What are emotions? How do they arise? How do they relate to other mental and bodily states? And what is their specific structure? The book discusses these questions, focusing on medieval and early modern theories. It looks at a great number of authors, ranging from Aquinas to Spinoza, and shows that they gave sophisticated accounts of human emotions.

Table contents:

I. Thomas Aquinas: Emotions as Sensual Movements
1. A Simple Explanation?
2. The Soul and Its Faculties
3. The Characterization and Classification of the Emotions
4. The Cognitive Content of Emotions: Fear and Anger
5. How Can Emotions Be Rationally Controlled?
II. John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham: Emotions in the Will
1. Two Kinds of Emotions
2. Pain as a Sensual Suffering
3. Sadness and Free Will
4. The Separation of the Parts of the Soul and Its Consequences
5. Love , Enjoyment and Voluntary Control
III. Michel de Montaigne: A Skeptical View of Emotions
1. A Theoretical Approach?
2. Dynamic Pyrrhonism
3. Applying the Skeptical Method: Sadness, Fear and Anger
4. Is A Systematic Order of the Emotions Possible?
5. Natural Moderation Instead of Control
IV. René Descartes: A Dualist View of Emotions
1. A Mechanistic Theory of Feelings?
2. The Functional Unity of Body and Mind
3. Emotions as Representations
4. Wonder and the Taxonomy of Emotions
5. Self-control through Self-respect
V. Baruch de Spinoza: Emotions as Psychophysical Units
1. A Naturalistic Approach
2. The Metaphysical Frame: Monism and Causal Order
3. Passive and Active Emotions
4. An Intellectualistic and Egoistic Error?
5. A Rationalistic Therapy

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