Basileios Kroustallis
Descartes on Passion Reformation
Descartes’ account of emotion conflict in the
Passions of the Soul has recently been the subject of Shapiro’s essay
(2003), who claims that agent evaluation of the human good operates as an
explanatory factor for the reformation of existing mind-body associations. On
the contrary, it is here argued that this passion reformation involves explicit
reasoning processes, and that the tendency to promote the good of the human
being either denotes the cause and not the reason for the original passion
formation or is a specific reasoning method. Passion reformation does not seem
to be essentially related to the problem of mind-body union.
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 0003-9101
Volume: 87, 10/2005
Pages: 312 - 323
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