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oapen-20.500.12657-855942023-11-28T03:33:46Z Chapter Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology: The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth Muller, Jil René Descartes Elisabeth of Bohemia passions humors animal spirits consciousness bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy By pushing Descartes to more clearly explain the union of body and soul beyond the functioning of a ‘strong’ passion, namely sadness, Elisabeth wants Descartes to review his idea of the passions, and his understanding of the ‘theory of the four humors’. This chapter aims at showing that Descartes turns away from Galen’s theory of the humors, which he globally adopts in the 1633 Treatise of Man. With the shift in his conceptualization of the humors between this Treatise and the Treatise of the Passions (1649), Descartes analyzed more specifically the inner feelings, consciousness, and the passions, by considering that a man is not simply a body, but a psychophysical being, with a body and a soul. 2023-11-27T17:12:25Z 2023-11-27T17:12:25Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231127_9791221501698_4 9791221501698 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85594 eng Knowledge and its Histories application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 38459.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0169-8.5 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221501698 1 22 Florence open access
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By pushing Descartes to more clearly explain the union of body and soul beyond the functioning of a ‘strong’ passion, namely sadness, Elisabeth wants Descartes to review his idea of the passions, and his understanding of the ‘theory of the four humors’. This chapter aims at showing that Descartes turns away from Galen’s theory of the humors, which he globally adopts in the 1633 Treatise of Man. With the shift in his conceptualization of the humors between this Treatise and the Treatise of the Passions (1649), Descartes analyzed more specifically the inner feelings, consciousness, and the passions, by considering that a man is not simply a body, but a psychophysical being, with a body and a soul.
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