Passions and Perceptions
Title | Passions and Perceptions PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Brunschwig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1993-03-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0521402026 |
This volume considers the important contributions to philosophy made by the philosophers of the Hellenistic schools.
Passions & Perceptions
Title | Passions & Perceptions PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Brunschwig |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy of mind |
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The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece & Rome (Epicureans, Stoics, Sceptics, Academics, Cyrenaics) made important contributions to the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology. This volume describes and analyses their contributions on issues such as the nature of the passions and their role in action, and more.
Passions of the Soul
Title | Passions of the Soul PDF eBook |
Author | René Descartes |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1989-12-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 162466198X |
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum
Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy
Title | Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Boyde |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1993-09-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521370097 |
A reading of the Comedy in the context of thirteenth-century psychology and philosophy.
The Key of Green
Title | The Key of Green PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce R. Smith |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2010-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226763811 |
From Shakespeare’s “green-eyed monster” to the “green thought in a green shade” in Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden,” the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among other things, green was the most common color of household goods, the recommended wall color against which to view paintings, the hue that was supposed to appear in alchemical processes at the moment base metal turned to gold, and the color most frequently associated with human passions of all sorts. A unique cultural history, The Key of Green considers the significance of the color in the literature, visual arts, and popular culture of early modern England. Contending that color is a matter of both sensation and emotion, Bruce R. Smith examines Renaissance material culture—including tapestries, clothing, and stonework, among others—as well as music, theater, philosophy, and nature through the lens of sense perception and aesthetic pleasure. At the same time, Smith offers a highly sophisticated meditation on the nature of consciousness, perception, and emotion that will resonate with students and scholars of the early modern period and beyond. Like the key to a map, The Key of Green provides a guide for looking, listening, reading, and thinking that restores the aesthetic considerations to criticism that have been missing for too long.
Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception
Title | Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Ott |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-04-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192509454 |
The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naïve realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created a problem for seventeenth century philosophers: how is that we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Ejecting such sensible qualities from the mind-independent world at once makes for a cleaner ontology, since bodies can now be understood in purely geometrical terms, and spawns a variety of fascinating complications for the philosophy of perception. If sensible qualities are not part of the mind-independent world, just what are they, and what role, if any, do they play in our cognitive economy? We seemingly have to use color to visually experience objects. Do we do so by inferring size, shape, and motion from color? Or is it a purely automatic operation, accomplished by divine decree? This volume traces the debate over perceptual experience in early modern France, covering such figures as Antoine Arnauld, Robert Desgabets, and Pierre-Sylvain Régis alongside their better-known countrymen René Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.
Knowledge and Passion
Title | Knowledge and Passion PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1980-03-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521295628 |
An ethnographic interpretation of the life of the Ilongots, a group of 3,500 hunters and horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines, analyzes their social life with reference to their emotional development throughout the life cycle.