Title Emotions in ancient and medieval philosophy / Simo Knuuttila

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations Contents Emotions in Ancient Philosophy -- Emotions and the Ancient Pursuit of Christian Perfection -- Medieval Conceptions of Emotions from Abelard to Aquinas -- Emotions in fourteenth-century philosophy Summary The first part of the book covers the theories of the emotions of Plato and Aristotle and later ancient views from Stoicism to Neoplatonism (Ch. 1) and their reception and transformation by early Christian thinkers from Clement and Origen to Gregory of Nyssa, Cassian and Augustine (Ch. 2). The basic ancient alternatives were the compositional theories of Plato and Aristotle and their followers and the Stoic judgement theory. These were associated with different conceptions of philosophical therapy. Ancient theories were employed in early Christian discussions of sin, Christian love, mystical union, and other forms of spiritual experience. The most influential theological themes were the monastic idea of supernaturally caused feelings and Augustine's analysis of the relations between the emotions and the will. The first part of Ch. 3 deals with the twelfth-century reception of ancient themes through monastic, theological, medical, and philosophical literature. The subject of the second part is the theory of emotions in Avicenna's faculty psychology, which, to a great extent, dominated the philosophical discussion of emotions in early thirteenth century. This approach was combined with Aristotelian ideas in later thirteenth century, particularly in Thomas Aquinas' extensive taxonomical theory. The increasing interest in psychological voluntarism led many Franciscan authors to abandon the traditional view that emotions belong only to the lower psychosomatic level. John Duns Scotus, William Ockham and their followers argued that there are also emotions of the will. Chapter 4 is about these new issues introduced in early fourteenth-century discussions, with some remarks on their influence on early modern thought Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-322) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Emotions (Philosophy) -- History Philosophy, Ancient. Philosophy, Medieval. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism. Emotions (Philosophy) Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Gefühl Geschichte Philosophie Emoties. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Oxford University Press ISBN 0199266387 9780199266388 9780191532832 0191532835 9780191601750 0191601756

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