Emotions are the focus of intense debate both in contemporary
philosophy and psychology and increasingly also in the history of
ideas. Simo Knuuttila presents a comprehensive survey of
philosophical theories of emotion from Plato to Renaissance times,
combining rigorous philosophical analysis with careful historical
reconstruction. The first part of the book covers the conceptions
of Plato and Aristotle and later ancient views from Stoicism to
Neoplatonism and, in addition, their reception and transformation
by early Christian thinkers from Clement and Origen to Augustine
and Cassian. Knuuttila then proceeds to a discussion of ancient
themes in medieval thought, and of new medieval conceptions,
codified in the so-called faculty psychology from Avicenna to
Aquinas, in thirteenth century taxonomies, and in the voluntarist
approach of Duns Scotus, William Ockham, and their followers.
Philosophers, classicists, historians of philosophy, historians of
psychology, and anyone interested in emotion will find much to
stimulate them in this fascinating book.
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