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Full Idea
Descartes says there are six primary passions (wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness); Spinoza says there are just three (joy, sadness and desire).
Gist of Idea
Are there a few primary passions (say, joy, sadness and desire)?
Source
report of René Descartes (The Passions of the Soul [1649]) by John Cottingham - The Rationalists p.172
Book Ref
Cottingham,John: 'The Rationalists' [OUP 1988], p.172
A Reaction
A dubious project. However, it is now agreed that there are a few (six?) basic universal facial expressions, to which these passions may correspond.
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| 4313 | Are there a few primary passions (say, joy, sadness and desire)? [Descartes, by Cottingham] |
| 4016 | Descartes makes strength of will the central virtue [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
| 3654 | The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body [Descartes, by PG] |
| 20037 | Merely willing to walk leads to our walking [Descartes] |
| 23989 | There are six primitive passions: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness [Descartes, by Goldie] |
| 16763 | We don't die because the soul departs; the soul departs because the organs cease functioning [Descartes] |