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dc.contributor.authorXavier Douglas, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-23T08:30:05Z
dc.date.available2019-08-23T08:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-20
dc.identifier260694348
dc.identifier47ac5bdc-04bd-43c0-9495-3fa4f65b426e
dc.identifier.citationXavier Douglas , A 2019 , ' How to make the passions active : Spinoza and R.G. Collingwood ' , Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , vol. 85 , pp. 237-249 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246118000772en
dc.identifier.issn1358-2461
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9486-8991/work/69029484
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18359
dc.description.abstractMost early modern philosophers held that our emotions are always passions: to experience an emotion is to undergo something rather than to do something. Spinoza is different; he holds that our emotions – what he calls our ‘affects’ – can be actions rather than passions. Moreover, we can convert a passive affect into an active one simply by forming a clear and distinct idea of it. This theory is difficult to understand. I defend the interpretation R.G. Collingwood gives of it in his book, The Principles of Art. An affect, it turns out, is passive when it is ambiguous whether we or somebody else is the subject of the affect. An affect is active when we fully accept the affect as our own. Here, I outline Collingwood's interpretation and then develop it further.
dc.format.extent208434
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplementsen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleHow to make the passions active : Spinoza and R.G. Collingwooden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1358246118000772
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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