The vehement passions /
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intens...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2002.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rxpt |
Sommario:
- 1. Passions, Strong Emotions, Vehement Occasions
- 2. Paths among the Passions
- 3. Thoroughness
- 4. Privacy, Radical Singularity
- 5. Time
- 6. Rashness
- 7. Mutual Fear
- 8. The Aesthetics of Fear
- 9. The Radius of the Will
- 10. Anger and Diminution
- 11. Grief
- 12. Spiritedness.