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DESCARTES - LIVING WITH THE PASSIONS: / Michael Moriarty
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My Night with Philosophers, 2013.
Descartes draws a very sharp distinction between mind and body, conceiving the mind as a purely immaterial entity that could exist separately from the body. But he also insists that the two are in fact united: the self of everyday life is profoundly embodied. Nothing shows this more clearly than his account of the emotions and the role they play in our lives.
Michael Moriarty is Drapers Professor of French at Cambridge University. He writes mainly about seventeenth-century philosophical and religious thought. His most recent book is Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has translated Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy for the Oxford World’s Classics series.
