ABSTRACT: René Descartes’s last book The Passions of the Soul (1649) includes several paragraphs concerning esteem and contempt, both seen as special kinds of “wonder” (admiration). After having focused the relationships between esteem and love and wonder in the early stages of Descartes’s philosophy of passions, the paper comes to the conclusion that Descartes profoundly changed his former opinions on “esteem” and gave this concept a new identity precisely in his last work. This evolution was, however, consistent with Descartes’s final approach to the nature of passions and – above all – with one of the fundamental purposes he gave to his latest book, namely to defend the search for a personal moral identity from accusations that were usually aimed at “self-love”.
Stima e amore in Les Passions de l’Ame di Descartes
PIRO F.
2021
Abstract
ABSTRACT: René Descartes’s last book The Passions of the Soul (1649) includes several paragraphs concerning esteem and contempt, both seen as special kinds of “wonder” (admiration). After having focused the relationships between esteem and love and wonder in the early stages of Descartes’s philosophy of passions, the paper comes to the conclusion that Descartes profoundly changed his former opinions on “esteem” and gave this concept a new identity precisely in his last work. This evolution was, however, consistent with Descartes’s final approach to the nature of passions and – above all – with one of the fundamental purposes he gave to his latest book, namely to defend the search for a personal moral identity from accusations that were usually aimed at “self-love”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
