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René Descartes

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In the treatise Passions of the Soul, the last of Descartes' published work, completed in 1649 and dedicated to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, the author contributes to a long tradition of theorizing "the passions". The passions were experiences now commonly called emotions in the modern period, and had been a subject …

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