The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings

List of Abbreviations ix Introduction xi A Note on the Text, Translations, and References xxx Select Bibliography xxxiv A Chronology of René Descartes xxxvii CORRESPONDENCE WITH PRINCESS ELISABETH OF BOHEMIA, 1643-1649 1 PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY, Part I (1644, 1647) 119 OTHER LETTERS 167 To Father Denis Mesland, SJ, 2 May 1644 and 9 February 1645 169 To the Marquess of Newcastle, 23 November 1646 176 To Pierre Chanut, 6 June 1647 180 To Antoine Arnauld, 29 July 1648 185 THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL (1649) 191 Appendix: A Note on Descartes's Physics 281 Explanatory Notes 284 Index 353