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By John Cottingham

Can philosophy allow us to guide greater lives via a scientific realizing of our human nature? John Cottingham's thought-provoking 1998 research examines the contrasting ways to this challenge present in 3 significant levels of Western philosophy. beginning with the makes an attempt of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics and Epicureans to deal with the recalcitrant forces of the passions, he strikes directly to study the attention-grabbing and hitherto little-studied ethical psychology of Descartes, and his attempt to combine the actual and emotional features of our humanity right into a rational blueprint for fulfilment. He concludes via analysing the insights of recent psychoanalytic conception into the human crisis, arguing that philosophy neglects them at its peril if it hopes to return to phrases with the advanced courting among cause and the sentiments. Lucid in exposition and strangely wide-ranging in scope, Philosophy and the great existence presents a not easy point of view on ethical philosophy and psychology for college kids and experts alike.

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