Body and Passions
Materialism and the Early Modern State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924898 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold J Cook (0000-0001-5686-4957, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Pages | 25-48 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/649358 |
| OpenAlex | W2149033556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
A group of works written in the mid-seventeenth-century Netherlands shows many defenders of commerce and republicanism embracing some of the most unsettling tenets of the new and experimental philosophy. Their political arguments were based on a view consonant with Cartesianism, in which the body and its passions for the most part dominate reason, instead of the prevailing idea that reason could and should dominate the passions and through them the body. These arguments were in turn related to some of the new claims about the body that flowed from recent anatomical investigations, in a time and place comfortable with materialism. If ever there were a group of political theorists who grounded their views on contemporary science, this is it: Johann de Witt, the brothers De la Court, and Spinoza. They believed that the new philosophy showed it was unnatural and impoverishing to have a powerful head of state, natural and materially progressive to allow the self-interested pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness
Aesthetics · Cartesianism · Epistemology · Happiness · Materialism · Mind–body problem · Passions · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Progressivism · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2023 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |