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René Descartes (1596–1650) The Passions of the Soul (1649)
Part First: Of the Passions in General, and Incidentally of the Whole Nature of Man
escartes lived in a time when European civilization began to change rapidly, when many of the cultural and scientific foundations of the modern world were laid. Shakespeare, Cervantes, Monteverdi, and Molière; Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, and Hobbes were a few of Descartes’ contemporaries…
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