Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature

ISBN-13: 9780271020310 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 320 str.

Michel Meyer; Robert F. Barsky

Opis

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 excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.Michel Meyer provides new insight into an age-old dilemma: Does passion torture people because it blinds them, or, on the contrary, does it permit them to apprehend who and what we really are?