Dickens and the passions.

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

An Investigation into the Use of Category Shifts in the Persian Translation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

The present study aimed at finding Catford‟s category shifts applied in the Persian translation of Charles Dickens‟ novel Great Expectations to determine the most frequently used category shift and to check whether there is a significant difference between category shifts in the translation. To this end, 200 simple declarative sentences from the first 20 chapters...

Passions and Evil in Kant’s Philosophy

In this paper, I aim at relating passions to evil in Kant’s philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the text Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant claims that both affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both affect and passion hinder the sovereignty of reason. I show that passions are worse than affects for the purpose of pur...

Descartes as a psychotherapist. The uses of rational philosophy in the treatment of discomfort and disease; its limitations.

DEscARTS' psychotherapeutical designs can be derived from his correspondence with the Bohemian Princess Elizabeth and from his Treatise ofthe Passions, published in 1649, at the age of 53, a few months prior to his death. These psychotherapeutical designs are closely related to his theory of the passions. Descartes conceived the passions as being caused, upheld and fortified by some movement of...

Can Hume’s Impressions of Reflection Represent?

Humean passions are of, for or about things – that is, they are intentional. However, Hume is also taken to claim, in a famous passage of A Treatise of Human Nature, that the passions do not represent anything (THN 2.3.3.5). Hume’s views in 2.3.3.5, and his views on intentionality of the passions, have been interpreted to be in tension with each another (Kenny 2003, Penelhum 1993, Cohon and Owe...