Against what is often written, this thesis doesn't mean that emotion would be a pure comedy but only that, in spite of appearances, this behaviour isn't a matter of what Descartes calls soul's passions.doi:10.1023/B:PHEN.0000041895.78486.e2Philippe Cabestan...
One recognizes here the celebrated “primitive passions” from Descartes’ 1649 treatise on the passions. Fear, disgust, and rage are negative, something that psychology, at its most exemplary in Paul Ekman, has called “primary emotions” since the 1970’s. For language, therefore, it is ...
But the aesthetic sphere of the mind, its longings, its pleasures and pains, and its emotions, have been so ignored in all these researches that one is tempted to suppose that if either Dr. Ferrier or Dr. Munk were asked for a theory in brain-terms of the latter mental facts, they ...
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The debate has raged on since 5thcentury BC when Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, argued their relative positions on the role and function of the mind, heart, spirit, soul and brain. In the 17thcentury, discussion turned to Dualism, popularly linked with Descartes, who taught that the mind ...
Descartes declared “I THINK THEREFORE I AM”. Do you agree? Click to learn more. 29/01/2016 Venus in Pisces Creation In Pisces, Venus is not bound to material needs and satisfactions; it is much more interested in the harmonizing and unification of spirits. It brings out a higher love...
One of its well-known representatives is the French philosopher and mathematician amp; Rene Descartes (1596- 1650). 4. Cynicism: 4th Century BC The Cynics attempt to offer people the possibility of happiness and freedom from suffering in the age of uncertainty. The meaning of life is mental ...
Descartes declared “I THINK THEREFORE I AM”. Do you agree? Click to learn more. 29/01/2016 Venus in Pisces Creation In Pisces, Venus is not bound to material needs and satisfactions; it is much more interested in the harmonizing and unification of spirits. It brings out a higher love...