Knuuttila has done an immense amount of research, covering an extraordinarily wide variety of sources ... it will be a fine resource for any who wish to see how ideas of the soul, and the place of emotions and other faculties and powers in it, evolved from classical antiquity to the high Middle Ages. It is the work of a scholar very much at home in the mediaeval scholastic tradition, who brings to the task a deep understanding of the kinds of reasoning in which these thinkers were engaged. Knuuttila's book will be an excellent starting point for any future investigations of the history of the emotions.

David Konstan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Emotions are the focus of intense debate both in contemporary philosophy and psychology and increasingly also in the history of ideas. Simo Knuuttila presents a comprehensive survey of philosophical theories of emotion from Plato to Renaissance times, combining rigorous philosophical analysis with careful historical reconstruction. The first part of the book covers the conceptions of Plato and Aristotle and later ancient views from Stoicism to Neoplatonism and, in addition, their reception and transformation by early Christian thinkers from Clement and Origen to Augustine and Cassian. Knuuttila then proceeds to a discussion of ancient themes in medieval thought, and of new medieval conceptions, codified in the so-called faculty psychology from Avicenna to Aquinas, in thirteenth century taxonomies, and in the voluntarist approach of Duns Scotus, William Ockham, and their followers. Philosophers, classicists, historians of philosophy, historians of psychology, and anyone interested in emotion will find much to stimulate them in this fascinating book.
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Emotions are the focus of intense debate both in contemporary philosophy and psychology and increasingly also in the history of ideas. This book serves as a survey of philosophical theories of emotions from Plato to Renaissance times, combining historical reconstruction with philosophical analysis.
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Introduction; 1. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; 2. Emotions and the Ancient Pursuit of Christian Perfection; 3. Medieval Conceptions of Emotions from Abelard to Aquinas; 4. Emotions in Fourteenth-Century Philosophy; Bibliography; Index
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Knuuttila has done an immense amount of research, covering an extraordinarily wide variety of sources ... it will be a fine resource for any who wish to see how ideas of the soul, and the place of emotions and other faculties and powers in it, evolved from classical antiquity to the high Middle Ages. It is the work of a scholar very much at home in the mediaeval scholastic tradition, who brings to the task a deep understanding of the kinds of reasoning in which these thinkers were engaged. Knuuttila's book will be an excellent starting point for any future investigations of the history of the emotions.
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Surveys two thousand years of thinking about emotion Discusses a wide range of philosophical, literary, scientific, and religious texts Lucid, informative, and engaging
Surveys two thousand years of thinking about emotion Discusses a wide range of philosophical, literary, scientific, and religious texts Lucid, informative, and engaging

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ISBN
9780199266388
Publisert
2004
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
679 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
U, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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1

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