Rene Descartes

The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings

Übersetzung: Moriarty, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Passions of the Soul is Descartes's greatest contribution to the understanding of the union of mind and body. It discusses the emotions and their place in human life. This volume also includes both sides of the correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, crucial to the genesis of the work, and Part I of The Principles of Philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: OUP Oxford / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9780199684137
• ISBN-10: 0199684138
• Artikelnr.: 42804156

Autorenporträt

Michael Moriarty's publications include Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion (OUP, 2003) and Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (OUP, 2011). He has translated Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy for Oxford World's Classics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text and Translation
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Descartes
Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, 1643-9
Principles of Philosophy, Part I (1644, 1647)
Letters to Fr Denis Mesland, SJ, 2 May 1644 and 9 February 1645
Letter to the Marquess of Newcastle, 23 November 1646
Letter to Pierre Chanut, 6 June 1647
Letter to Antoine Arnauld, 29 July 1648
The Passions of the Soul (1649)
Explanatory Notes