This intriguing text is edited and translated before a team of distinguished scholars examine it from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical.

3 book set

Passion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action.

Married to a rake brings about many twists. And the story is more than a simple romance. There is intrigue, an abduction that takes Lucas into a pirates cove and even murder.

They include the story of Walburga Oesterreich, who kept her lover in a secret attic for years until he shot her husband dead, and Madame Fahmy, who murdered her depraved Egyptian husband. The author also wrote Face of Evil.

This book, the last that noted moral theologian Servais Pinckaers, OP, wrote before his death, was conceived as a follow-up to his previous work Plaidoyer pour la vertu (An Appeal for Virtue) (2007) Pinckaers' aim in Passions and Virtue was ...

Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.

... passion through reason ! The important work of Ribot was pursued and elaborated further by Joussain ( 1928 ) . In his book Les passions humaines ( The Human Passions ) , Joussain , like Ribot , subscribed to the Kantian position in which ...