Emotional Minds - The Passions and the Limits of Pure Inquiry in Early Modern Philosophy

I. The impact of Descartes’s theory of the passions

The Functional Logic of Cartesian Passions

Generosity

Auto-affection et cogito. Sur le cartésianisme de Michel Henry

La structure passionnelle de l’âme malebranchiste: entre Descartes et Regius?

II. Exploring Spinoza’s theory of the affects

Spinoza on the Passionate Dimension of Philosophical Reasoning

Spinoza on Imagination and the Affects

Spinoza et le problème de l’Abjectio

Changing one’s own Feelings: Spinoza and Shaftesbury on Philosophy as Therapy

III. Transformation and critique of the mechanistic paradigm

Leibniz on the Passions and the Dynamical Dimension of the Human Mind

Leibniz on Hope

Knowledge and Suffering in Early Modern Philosophy: G.W. Leibniz and Anne Conway

Henry More on Human Passions and Animal Souls

IV. Side glances and further developments

“Passionate Thought”: reason and the passion of curiosity in Thomas Hobbes

Peut-on être indifférent à soi-même? Difficultés stoïciennes dans le pur amour de Fénelon

«...le plus de douceur en cette vie...». Moralistik, Sensualismus und der Geschmack von Passionen im 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert

Gefühl ist alles! Zur semantischen Genese einer Erfahrungskategorie

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