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Book The Passions and the Interests

Download or read book The Passions and the Interests written by Albert O. Hirschman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the "harmless," if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith. Featuring a new afterword by Jeremy Adelman and a foreword by Amartya Sen, this Princeton Classics edition of The Passions and the Interests sheds light on the intricate ideological transformation from which capitalism emerged triumphant, and reaffirms Hirschman's stature as one of our most influential and provocative thinkers. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Book Passions of the Soul

    Book Details:
  • Author : René Descartes
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 1989-12-15
  • ISBN : 162466198X
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Passions of the Soul written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1989-12-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum

Book 10 Passions of a Man s Soul

Download or read book 10 Passions of a Man s Soul written by Mark Elfstrand and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morning show host of Moody Radio Network's flagship station in Chicago, Mark Elfstrand uses interviews with ten dynamic, powerfully gifted leaders to explore the driving passions that motivate authentic men of God. Exploring topics such as power, adventure, purpose, pleasure, and wealth, this transparent disclosure of men's innermost feelings brings up thought-provoking questions and surprising revelations about contemporary leaders and historical figures. Readers will discover the hidden leader waiting to emerge from within themselves.

Book The Passions of Fatherhood

Download or read book The Passions of Fatherhood written by Samuel Osherson and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his superb successor to Finding Our Fathers, psychologist Samuel Osherson explores the most challenging and rewarding relationship in a man's life. Through revealing anecdotes and interviews with scores of fathers, Osherson illuminates the joy and anger, excitement and frustration, and discovery and bewilderment that all fathers experience.

Book Of the passions

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  • Author : David Hume
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1826
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book Of the passions written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man

Download or read book A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man written by Edward Reynolds and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Reflections on the structure  and passions  of man  under the following heads  viz  I  On the structure of man  II  On the passions     III  The transitoriness of life  death  religion   c

Download or read book Reflections on the structure and passions of man under the following heads viz I On the structure of man II On the passions III The transitoriness of life death religion c written by Paul HIFFERNAN and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man

Download or read book A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man written by Edward Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1640 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man  1640

Download or read book A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man 1640 written by Edward Reynolds and published by Academic Resources Corp. This book was released on 1971 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Passions of Man

Download or read book The Passions of Man written by James Ruffhead and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man  With the severall dignities and corruptions therunto belonging

Download or read book A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the severall dignities and corruptions therunto belonging written by Edward REYNOLDS (Bishop of Norwich.) and published by . This book was released on 1658 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Passions of Andrew Jackson

Download or read book The Passions of Andrew Jackson written by Andrew Burstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and a man of the people, but he was much more—a man just as complex and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric. The unabashedly aggressive Jackson came of age in the Carolinas during the American Revolution, migrating to Tennessee after he was orphaned at the age of fourteen. Little more than a poorly educated frontier bully when he first opened his public career, he was possessed of a controlling sense of honor that would lead him into more than one duel. As a lover, he fled to Spanish Mississippi with his wife-to-be before she was divorced. Yet when he was declared a national hero upon his stunning victory at the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson suddenly found the presidency within his grasp. How this brash frontiersman took Washington by storm makes a fascinating story, and Burstein tells it thoughtfully and expertly. In the process he reveals why Jackson was so fiercely loved (and fiercely hated) by the American people, and how his presidency came to shape the young country’s character.

Book The Passions of Man  A Poem  In Four Epistles

Download or read book The Passions of Man A Poem In Four Epistles written by and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spinoza on Reason  Passions  and the Supreme Good

Download or read book Spinoza on Reason Passions and the Supreme Good written by Andrea Sangiacomo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's thought is at the centre of an ever growing interest. Spinoza's moral philosophy, in particular, points to a radical way of understanding how human beings can become free and enjoy supreme happiness. And yet, there is still much disagreement about how exactly Spinoza's recipe is supposed to work. For long time, Spinoza has been presented as an arch rationalist who would identify in the purely intellectual cultivation of reason the key for ethical progress. Andrea Sangiacomo offers a new understanding of Spinoza's project, by showing how he himself struggled during his career to develop a moral philosophy that could speak to human beings as they actually are (imperfect, passionate, often not very rational). Spinoza's views significantly evolved over time. In his early writings, Spinoza's account of ethical progress towards the Supreme Good relies mostly on the idea that the mind can build on its innate knowledge to resist the power of the passions. Although appropriate social conditions may support the individual's pursuit of the Supreme Good, achieving it does not depend essentially on social factors. In Spinoza's later writings, however, the emphasis shifts towards the mind's need to rely on appropriate forms of social cooperation. Reason becomes the mental expression of the way the human body interacts with external causes on the basis of some degree of agreement in nature with them. The greater the agreement, the greater the power of reason to adequately understand universal features as well as more specific traits of the external causes. In the case of human beings, certain kinds of social cooperation are crucial for the development of reason. This view has crucial ramifications for Spinoza's account of how individuals can progress towards the Supreme Good and how a political science based on Spinoza's principles can contribute to this goal.

Book Passion of the Western Mind

Download or read book Passion of the Western Mind written by Richard Tarnas and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.