Emotions and choice from Boethius to Descartes / edited by Henrik Lagerlund and Mikko Yrjönsuuri.

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[2002], ©2002
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Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002], ©2002.

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xi, 342 pages ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-316) and indexes.

Contents

Goodness and rational choice in the early middle ages / Calvin G. Normore -- Medieval theories of the passions of the soul / Simo Knuuttila -- Weakness of will : the plurality of medieval explanations / Risto Saarinen -- Free will and self-control in Peter Olivi / Mikko Yrjönsuuri -- Reflections on John Duns Scotus on the will / John Boler -- Nominalist ontology of the passions / Vesa Hirvonen -- Buridan's theory of free choice and its influence / Henrik Lagerlund -- Emotions in Renaissance humanism : Juan Luis Vives' De anima et vita / Lorenzo Casini -- Late scholastic theories of the passions : controversies in the Thomist tradition / Peter King -- Rationality of Cartesian passions / Deborah Brown -- Descartes on the will and the power to do otherwise / Lilli Alanen.

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  • 1402009933