The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 195
... usually signifies to the mind the feeling of thirst , and to be disposed by this parched feeling to move the nerves and other parts in the way requisite for drinking , and thus to augment its malady and do harm to itself , as it is ...
... usually signifies to the mind the feeling of thirst , and to be disposed by this parched feeling to move the nerves and other parts in the way requisite for drinking , and thus to augment its malady and do harm to itself , as it is ...
Page 343
... usually know any proximate cause to which we may relate them : such are the feelings of joy , anger , and other such sensations , which are sometimes excited in us by the objects which move our nerves and sometimes also by other causes ...
... usually know any proximate cause to which we may relate them : such are the feelings of joy , anger , and other such sensations , which are sometimes excited in us by the objects which move our nerves and sometimes also by other causes ...
Page 369
... usually more violent than the other sorts of love or hate , because what comes to the soul by the senses touches it more forcibly than what is represented to it by its reason , and that even though these first passions have usually less ...
... usually more violent than the other sorts of love or hate , because what comes to the soul by the senses touches it more forcibly than what is represented to it by its reason , and that even though these first passions have usually less ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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