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... emotions trouble his senses and make false impressions on him . Reason , senses , emotions , lie and deceive , outdoing each other . What a chimera is man ! Strange and monstrous ! A chaos , a contradiction , a prodigy . Judge of all ...
... emotions trouble his senses and make false impressions on him . Reason , senses , emotions , lie and deceive , outdoing each other . What a chimera is man ! Strange and monstrous ! A chaos , a contradiction , a prodigy . Judge of all ...
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Alburey Castell. The thesis I defend is this : Our passional [ emotion ] nature not only lawfully may , but must , decide an option between propositions , whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on ...
Alburey Castell. The thesis I defend is this : Our passional [ emotion ] nature not only lawfully may , but must , decide an option between propositions , whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on ...
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... emotion . In this he resembled Pascal . And now he is attempting the somewhat difficult task of formulating a " reasonable " defense of his position . Once having thrown reason overboard , he might better have remained impervious to ...
... emotion . In this he resembled Pascal . And now he is attempting the somewhat difficult task of formulating a " reasonable " defense of his position . Once having thrown reason overboard , he might better have remained impervious to ...
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