Emotions of the soul

Author: Rene Descartes Publication Date: 2019 Book Genre: Social and Political Sciences, Best Seller Publisher: Al-Rafidain for Printing and Number of Pages: 148 Format: Paperback About the Book: The passions of the soul is above all a book in psychology in which Descartes attempts to analyze various passions, desires, and emotions to understand them and explain their mechanisms, then to allow reason to control and harness them to serve the individual's happiness in his emotional life. It is also a book in ethics that complements what its author had established in the temporary science of ethics. In this book, will plays an important role not to uproot passions and emotions, but to tame and lead them toward this great victory in the social life of the individual, a victory of nobility of heart over greed, fear, hesitation, cowardice, and contempt. It is a book about the relationship between the soul and the body and what each of them has of passions and pleasures. The soul has its intellectual pleasures, and the body also has its pleasures and delights that should not be neglected in favor of the former under the pretext of the priority of the spiritual over the physical. Descartes never forgets this human who carries the machine of the body, and one should enjoy what this body allows him of blessings and graces.