Emotions and Choice from Boethius to Descartes (Hardcover)

Contributors.- Abbreviations.- Preface.- Introduction.- Goodness and Rational Choice in the Early Middle Ages.- Medieval Theories of the Passions of the Soul.- Weakness of Will: The Plurality of Medieval Explanations.- Free Will and Self-Control in Peter Olivi.- Reflections on John Duns Scotus on the Will.- A Nominalist Ontology of the Passions.- Buridan's Theory of Free Choice and its Influence.- Emotions in Renaissance Humanism: Juan Luis Vives' De Anima et vita.- Late Scholastic Theories of the Passions: Controversies in the Thomist Tradition.- The Rationality of Cartesian Passions.- Descartes on the Will and the Power to do Otherwise.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject. Index.