The Threats of Reason. Anxiety and Fear in Réné Descartes’ "Passions of the Soul"

Governare la Paura 2 (1) (2009)
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The essay analyzes Descartes’ Passions of Soul and, in particular, the emotion of fear and its state of Bodies, together with and the capacities of Will and Cogito to control passions.

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Francesco Cerrato
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