Imagining Oneself as Forming a Whole with Others: Descartes’s View of Love

In this paper, I address two widespread misconceptions about Descartes’s theory of love. Descartes defines love as a passion that ‘incites [the soul] to join in volition to the objects that appear to be suitable to it’ (AT XI: 387/Voss: 62). Several commentators assume joining in volition is an act...

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Main Author: Melanie Tate
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aperio 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Modern Philosophy
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Online Access:https://jmphil.org/article/id/2009/
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