Rethinking Thomas Hobbes on the Passions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21507911 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Bobier (0000-0003-4194-4721, Department of Philosophy Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 582-602 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific philosophical quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0279-0750 • E-ISSN: 1468-0114 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/papq.12322 |
| OpenAlex | W3101644354 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
There is widespread scholarly disagreement whether Hobbesian passions are or involve a type of cognition (i.e., imagination). This largely overlooked disagreement has implications for our understanding of Hobbesian deliberation. If passions are intrinsically cognitive, then, because Hobbesian deliberation is a series of alternating passions, deliberation would appear to be intrinsically cognitive as well. In this paper, I bring to light this overlooked disagreement and argue for a non‐cognitive reading of Hobbesian passions, according to which, a passion is an appetite or aversion caused by, but distinct from, an imagination of a future good or harm
Cognition · Deliberation · Epistemology · Passion · Passions · Political science · Politics · Historical Philosophy and Science · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |