Abstract

STARZYńSKI, Wojciech. Passions of the soul as Descartes' ultimate phenomenological accomplishment. Rev. NUFEN [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.2, pp. 24-33. ISSN 2175-2591.

The starting point of this text is a reconstruction of the main points of the phenomenological interpretation of Descartes' Passions of the soul by Merleau-Ponty. It is significant that in denouncing a certain ambiguity in Descartes' thought between causal realism, intellectualism and the phenomenology of the union of the soul and the body, he limits the reading of the text of the Passions to its first part. Our aim is to fill this gap: we shall attempt to see in the last two parts of Descartes' later text not only an extension of the theme of the Meditatio VI, that of the union of the soul and the body, but, by the introduction of ethics, its ultimate phenomenological accomplishment in which the ego is no longer a theoretical subjectivity, the operator of the objects of Mathesis but becomes a subject who through the self-affective experience of goodwill is part of the community of the generous.

Keywords : Descartes; Meditations; Phenomenological analysis.

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