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Feelings Transformed - Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 (Hardcover)
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Feelings Transformed - Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 (Hardcover)
Series: Emotions of the Past
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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. They were particularly interested in
the way we cope with our emotions: how we can change or perhaps
even overcome them? To answer this question, medieval and early
modern philosophers looked at the cognitive content of emotions,
for they were all convinced that we need to work on that content if
we want to change them. The book therefore pays particular
attention to the intimate relationship between theories of emotions
and theories of cognition. Moreover, the book emphasizes the
importance of the metaphysical framework for medieval and early
modern theories of emotions. It was a transformation of this
framework that made new theories possible. Starting with an
analysis of the Aristotelian framework, the book then looks at
skeptical, dualist and monist frameworks, and it examines how the
nature of emotions was explained in each of them. The discussion
also takes the theological and scientific context into account, for
changes in this context quite often gave rise to new problems -
problems that concerned the love of God, the joy of resurrected
souls, or the fear arising in a soul that is present in a body. All
of these problems are examined on the basis of close textual
analysis.
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