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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Knuuttila, Simo, 1946- Emotions in ancient and medieval philosophy. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)654399029 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simo Knuuttila |
| ISBN: | 0199266387 9780199266388 019920411X 9780199204113 |
| OCLC Number: | 56118153 |
| Description: | x, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Emotions in Ancient Philosophy -- Emotions and the Ancient Pursuit of Christian Perfection -- Medieval Conceptions of Emotions from Abelard to Aquinas -- Emotions in fourteenth-century philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | Simo Knuuttila. |
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The book offers a comprehensive, accurate, and textually supported description of the philosophical views of emotion from the fifth century BC to the fifteenth century AD. The wealth of references to primary sources, coupled with the consciousness in the presentation of numerous theoretical accounts, makes the monograph an ideal point of reference for the study of ancient and medieval approaches to emotion ... the book is, I believe, of interest to anyone currently working in the philosophy of emotions Anthony Hatzimoysis, Mind Knuutilla's book steers with a sure hand over the rough waters of the philosophical debates of ancient and medieval thought. Anthony Hatzimoysis, Mind Knuuttila has done an immense amount of research, covering an extraordinarily wide variety of sources ... it will be a fine resource for any who wish to see how ideas of the soul, and the place of emotions and other faculties and powers in it, evolved from classical antiquity to the high Middle Ages. It is the work of a scholar very much at home in the mediaeval scholastic tradition, who brings to the task a deep understanding of the kinds of reasoning in which these thinkers were engaged. Knuuttila's book will be an excellent starting point for any future investigations of the history of the emotions. David Konstan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Read more...
