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Article Dans Une Revue History of European Ideas Année : 2013

Reading Shaftesbury's Pathologia: An Illustration and Defence of the Stoic Account of the Emotions

Christian Maurer
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The present article is an edition of the Pathologia (1706), a Latin manuscript on the passions by Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713). There are two parts, i) an introduction with commentary (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2012.679795), and ii) an edition of the Latin text with an English translation (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2012.679796) . The Pathologia treats of a series of topics concerning moral psychology, ethics and philology, presenting a reconstruction of the Stoic theory of the emotions that is closely modelled on Cicero and Diogenes Lærtius. It contains a most detailed typology of the passions and affections as well as an analysis of a series of psychological connections, for example between admiration and pride. On the basis of his reconstruction of Stoic moral psychology and ethics, Shaftesbury argues that in one of his phases, Horace should be interpreted as a Stoic rather than as an Epicurean. The translation and the commentary draw attention to the relations between the Pathologia and Shaftesbury's English writings, most importantly Miscellaneous Reflections and the Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit, which sheds light on several features of Shaftesbury's relation to Stoicism.
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halshs-00808750 , version 1 (06-04-2013)

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Laurent Jaffro, Christian Maurer. Reading Shaftesbury's Pathologia: An Illustration and Defence of the Stoic Account of the Emotions. History of European Ideas, 2013, 39 (2), pp.207-220. ⟨10.1080/01916599.2012.679795⟩. ⟨halshs-00808750⟩

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