Explores the place of the emotions in 17th-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. The author ... » 

Explores the place of the emotions in 17th-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. The author surveys ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, showing their incorporation into new 17th-century philosophical theories. «