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Tratat despre sentimente
- GenresPhilosophy
148 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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René Descartes
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Meditations on First Philosophy
(1641) and
Principles of Philosophy
(1644), main works of French mathematician and scientist René Descartes, considered the father of analytic geometry and the founder of modern rationalism, include the famous dictum "I think, therefore I am."
A set of two perpendicular lines in a plane or three in space intersect at an origin in Cartesian coordinate system. Cartesian coordinate, a member of the set of numbers, distances, locates a point in this system. Cartesian coordinates describe all points of a Cartesian plane.
From given sets, {X} and {Y}, one can construct Cartesian product, a set of all pairs of elements (x, y), such that x belongs to {X} and y belongs to {Y}.
Cartesian philosophers include Antoine Arnauld.
René Descartes, a writer, highly influenced society. People continue to study closely his writings and subsequently responded in the west. He of the key figures in the revolution also apparently influenced the named coordinate system, used in planes and algebra.
Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors. In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul , a treatise on the early version of now commonly called emotions, he goes so far to assert that he writes on his topic "as if no one had written on these matters before." Many elements in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or earlier like Saint Augustine of Hippo provide precedents. Naturally, he differs from the schools on two major points: He rejects corporeal substance into matter and form and any appeal to divine or natural ends in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of act of creation of God.
Baruch Spinoza and Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz later advocated Descartes, a major figure in 17th century Continent, and the empiricist school of thought, consisting of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, opposed him. Leibniz and Descartes, all well versed like Spinoza, contributed greatly. Descartes, the crucial bridge with algebra, invented the coordinate system and calculus. Reflections of Descartes on mind and mechanism began the strain of western thought; much later, the invention of the electronic computer and the possibility of machine intelligence impelled this thought, which blossomed into the Turing test and related thought. His stated most in §7 of part I and in part IV of Discourse on the Method .
A set of two perpendicular lines in a plane or three in space intersect at an origin in Cartesian coordinate system. Cartesian coordinate, a member of the set of numbers, distances, locates a point in this system. Cartesian coordinates describe all points of a Cartesian plane.
From given sets, {X} and {Y}, one can construct Cartesian product, a set of all pairs of elements (x, y), such that x belongs to {X} and y belongs to {Y}.
Cartesian philosophers include Antoine Arnauld.
René Descartes, a writer, highly influenced society. People continue to study closely his writings and subsequently responded in the west. He of the key figures in the revolution also apparently influenced the named coordinate system, used in planes and algebra.
Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors. In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul , a treatise on the early version of now commonly called emotions, he goes so far to assert that he writes on his topic "as if no one had written on these matters before." Many elements in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or earlier like Saint Augustine of Hippo provide precedents. Naturally, he differs from the schools on two major points: He rejects corporeal substance into matter and form and any appeal to divine or natural ends in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of act of creation of God.
Baruch Spinoza and Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz later advocated Descartes, a major figure in 17th century Continent, and the empiricist school of thought, consisting of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, opposed him. Leibniz and Descartes, all well versed like Spinoza, contributed greatly. Descartes, the crucial bridge with algebra, invented the coordinate system and calculus. Reflections of Descartes on mind and mechanism began the strain of western thought; much later, the invention of the electronic computer and the possibility of machine intelligence impelled this thought, which blossomed into the Turing test and related thought. His stated most in §7 of part I and in part IV of Discourse on the Method .
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June 20, 2024
Precursor al psihologiei așa cum o cunoaștem în prezent, "Tratat despre sentimente" este un must-read pentru orice pasionat.
September 22, 2025
,,Căci nu numai când dorim să dobândim un bine pe care nu-l avem încă sau evităm un rău despre care credem că poate veni, dar și atunci când nu dorim decât păstrarea unui bine sau absența unui rău, acestea fiind toate cazurile asupra cărora se poate întinde respectivul sentiment, este evident că el privește mereu viitorul." (despre dorință, pag. 61)
,,Dacă ne-am hotărât la o acțiune înainte de a fi îndepărtată nehotărârea, aceasta dă naștere mustrării cugetului." (despre remușcare, pag. 62)
,,Tot astfel, răul făcut de alții, dacă nu se raportează deloc la noi, ne face să simțim față de ei doar indignare; iar dacă răul ne atinge pe noi, ne stârnește și mânia." (pag. 64)
,,Uneori durata prelungită a binelui pricinuiește plictiseala sau dezgustul, în timp ce durata prelungită a răului micșorează tristețea. În sfârșit, binele care a trecut ne trezește regretul, care este un soi de tristețe, iar răul care a trecut, veselia, care este un soi de bucurie." (pag. 64)
,,atunci cand stimăm obiectul dragostei noastre mai puțin decât pe noi înșine, nu avem pentru el decât o simplă afecțiune; atunci când îl stimăm la fel ca pe noi înșine, aceasta se numește prietenie; iar atunci când îl stimăm mai mult, sentimentul pe care îl avem poate fi numit devoțiune." (pag. 74-75)
,,Căci nu suntem indignați numai împotriva celor care fac bine sau rău unor persoane care nu o merită, dar simțim invidie față de cei care primesc acel bine și milă față de cei care au parte de rău." (pag. 153)
,,Dacă ne-am hotărât la o acțiune înainte de a fi îndepărtată nehotărârea, aceasta dă naștere mustrării cugetului." (despre remușcare, pag. 62)
,,Tot astfel, răul făcut de alții, dacă nu se raportează deloc la noi, ne face să simțim față de ei doar indignare; iar dacă răul ne atinge pe noi, ne stârnește și mânia." (pag. 64)
,,Uneori durata prelungită a binelui pricinuiește plictiseala sau dezgustul, în timp ce durata prelungită a răului micșorează tristețea. În sfârșit, binele care a trecut ne trezește regretul, care este un soi de tristețe, iar răul care a trecut, veselia, care este un soi de bucurie." (pag. 64)
,,atunci cand stimăm obiectul dragostei noastre mai puțin decât pe noi înșine, nu avem pentru el decât o simplă afecțiune; atunci când îl stimăm la fel ca pe noi înșine, aceasta se numește prietenie; iar atunci când îl stimăm mai mult, sentimentul pe care îl avem poate fi numit devoțiune." (pag. 74-75)
,,Căci nu suntem indignați numai împotriva celor care fac bine sau rău unor persoane care nu o merită, dar simțim invidie față de cei care primesc acel bine și milă față de cei care au parte de rău." (pag. 153)
July 30, 2024
An amazing read, to understand how feelings were seen by a great man in the 17th century - many of them (partially) applicable today.
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