Les Passions de l'âme

Author

René Descartes

Language

French

Year

1649

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

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In his final philosophical treatise, The Passions of the Soul, completed in 1649 and dedicated to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes contributes to a long tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of "the passions". The passions were experiences – now commonly called emotions in the modern period – that had been a subject of debate among philosophers and theologians since the time of Plato.