<p>The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.</p>
<p>Michel Meyer provides new insight into an age-old dilemma: Does passion torture people because it blinds them, or, on the contrary, does it permit them to apprehend who and what we really are?</p>

Philosophy and the Passions: Towards a History of Human Nature (Literature and Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Michel Meyer

Philosophy

The Pennsylvania State University Press

REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOSOPHIE 270 (4-2014) LES TOPIQUES D'ARISTOTE

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

INTER PHILOSO

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