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04-19-2002, 05:51 PM
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Descartes: What books?
I recently ran across a couple of quotes from Descartes, and liked them. They related to society and moral development. Anyone know which books he wrote on this subject?
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04-28-2002, 12:11 PM
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Dark Jedi,
Although I haven't read the text myself, I suspect that the quotations you mention are from Descartes' Les passions de l��me (The Passions of the Soul), which deals on morals and philosophical psychology. (More or less the only book of his that does.) It is included in volume 1 of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, ed. and trans. J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch and A. Kenny. I hope this helps. Prodros... |
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