...Katherine Butler Abstract This article explores a group of Thomas Weelkes’s songs where the usually light-hearted, playful and often suggestive fa-la refrain is juxtaposed with melancholic lyrics. The contrasting passions in these texts provide inspiration for typically madrigalian musical...

... be an important component of early modern therapeutics. double care healing prayer medicine religion passions On 16 May 1667, the gentlewoman Mary Rich noted in her diary that she could not sleep due to a ‘violent paine in my head’. The following morning she felt ‘indisposed’ and so took to prayer, which...

... theory of sense perception. It also undermines a widespread view about the relationship between the three fundamental, undefined notions in Spinoza's metaphysics: causation, conception and inherence. spinoza causation causal axiom perception parallelism passions One of the central axioms...

... judgement by informing us about their causes and effects. He distances, in his argument, passions from reason by claiming that passions are not ideas, do not represent anything, are self-contained and thus cannot be contradictory to truth or reason. Moral judgements, according to Hume, are passions...

... of the pleasure we take in tragedies, and the function of the chorus. The early modern understanding of concepts such as action, character, emotion, and tragic language—or action, manners, passions, and diction—differs alike from Aristotle’s and that of the idealist critics who displaced him after 1795. ancients...

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...Management of the emotions, known as the ‘accidents’ or ‘passions’ of the soul, was central to good health. The chapter describes the understanding of the passions provided by Galenic physiology and the ways in which disrupted passions caused illness or death. It argues that many late sixteenth...

...Spirituality requires passion and engages the emotions. However, emotions are not dumb feelings. They are or can be insightful, caring engagements with the world. Love, erotic love, lies at the heart of spirituality and serves as a secular model. Reverence, which is more than respect but less than...

... Phaedra Seneca Stoicism tragedy passions women in ancient tragedy quidquid tragoediae tument et domos urbes regnaque subuertit, uxorum paelicum contentio est. Whatever is inflated by tragedies and whatever overturns houses, cities, and kingdoms, is the struggles of wives and mistresses...

... is contrasted with the non-holistic, part-based conception of personality found in the Platonic-Aristotelian philosophical tradition in this period. The second part illustrates this broad contrast with special reference to the Stoic theory of passions and its critical reception by thinkers in the Platonic...

... the Enlightenment, but which grounded dignity in human passionate agency. Thus it is suggested that a range of thinkers, including Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Smith’s French translator, Sophie De Grouchey, all seemed to have inclined in this new direction. However, above all others, this chapter...

...This chapter considers Descartes’s view on whether the passions are ethically reliable in the sense of informing us of the value of things with respect to the ethical ends of virtue and happiness. The answer to this question is unclear, first, because the passions could not inform us in this way...

...This chapter describes the idea that emotions are reactions to a person's perceived matter of importance, whether good or ill. According to David Hume, passions are categorized into pleasant and unpleasant emotions. Pleasant emotions show relief and joy, while unpleasant emotions display boredom...

... on this score, a careful examination of his terminology of force, power, and virtue indicates that he assuredly did not think of the will as an efficient cause of movement in the brain and limbs. Although he did not articulate an alternative account, his emphasis in the Passions of the Soul...

... to be developed throughout the book, highlighting the central themes of nature, free will, and the passions. Finally, it addresses some methodological issues and considers Rousseau’s knowledge of Hobbes’s works. Le Mercier de la Rivière Mirabeau Victor Riquetti Marquis de Physiocrats Encyclopédie freedom...

...This chapter examines the extent to which the political theories Hobbes and Rousseau each developed were shaped by their rival accounts of human nature and the passions they thought natural to man. It relates Rousseau’s theory of the passions to French neo-Augustinian moral philosophy and reveals...

... or frustrate our natural desires. These feelings, similar to internal sensations, correspond systematically to patterns in the flow of animal spirits from the heart to the brain. James Susan passions Reynolds Edward animal spirits explanation mind–body sensation nature reflex action animals non‐human...

... of existence’ or ‘stylistics of being’, and, by extension, the compatibility or otherwise of this ‘aesthetics’ or ‘stylistics’ with those propositions of Deleuze which deal with the passions, their enabling conditions, and the assemblages within which they are positioned. aesthetics Eribon Didier ethics...

... of English Benedictine nuns reveal their efforts to comply with clerical prescriptive literature on emotions, usually construed as passions or appetites, and described as enemies of spirituality. Yet nuns’ relationships with emotions (and more generally with the body as a vector of emotions) remained complex...

... to depict what painting cannot ultimately show: namely, spoken words, audition, the passage of time, and spiritual passions reflecting changes of heart. Caravaggio chiaroscuro tenebrism daylight diurnal paintings illumination light nighttime paintings nocturnes Novalis painting audition hearing...