The study of the emotions in the Essais of Montaigne shows a complex phenomenon, which demonstrate the great assumption of the Montaigne’s anthropology: man is an undividable unity of body and soul. Like human being, the emotion is a mixture experience that has a double aetiology: it raise in the body and in the soul. For his particular constitution, man is naturally subject to « nombre infiny des passions », and the wisdom of the Essais is nothing else that the ability of governing and harmonising the emotional forces, for realise the only human possible perfection: enjoy the proper life in his immanent singularity (sçavoir jouyr loiallement de son estre). For that goal, the moral philosophy needs to know the real physiological and psychological powers and limits of human being, because wisdom must be useful et practicable. The knowing of the body in the Essais will lead to a deconstruction of the hylomorphic psychology and to the affirmation of the independence and autonomy of the body’s dynamism: the experience of the involuntary actions and sensible emotions arise without any reference to the aristotelic psyché, and the soul fell this events as affections. On the other side, the psychological knowledge tries to understand, b the introspection, the psychological acts (linked to imagination and judgement) that constitutes the emotions of the soul. By that understanding, the soul discover his power of arising the emotions, that witch give him the concrete possibility of manage the conflicts and the tensions between passions, using the power of other different passions. This process, in the third book of the Essais, sketch a real discipline of the soul that is an administration of the soul’s emotions («passions de l’ âme») and of the body’s emotions («passions corporelles»): the soul has to rest in connection with his body, and in doing so it can intensify the psychosomatic unity. It is in that unity, constantly reaffirmed, that man has access to the enjoyment of his proper being and to the moral perfection.

«LA DIVERSITÉ DES NOS PASSIONS!»: CORPO, ANIMA E SAGGEZZA NEGLI ESSAIS DI MONTAIGNE / E. Ferrari ; tutor: Gianfranco Mormino ; co-tutor: Thierry Gontier ; coordinatore: Renato Pettoello. Universita' degli Studi di Milano, 2011 Jun 28. 22. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2009. [10.6092/ferrari-emiliano_phd2011-06-28].

«LA DIVERSITÉ DES NOS PASSIONS!»: CORPO, ANIMA E SAGGEZZA NEGLI ESSAIS DI MONTAIGNE

E. Ferrari
2011

Abstract

The study of the emotions in the Essais of Montaigne shows a complex phenomenon, which demonstrate the great assumption of the Montaigne’s anthropology: man is an undividable unity of body and soul. Like human being, the emotion is a mixture experience that has a double aetiology: it raise in the body and in the soul. For his particular constitution, man is naturally subject to « nombre infiny des passions », and the wisdom of the Essais is nothing else that the ability of governing and harmonising the emotional forces, for realise the only human possible perfection: enjoy the proper life in his immanent singularity (sçavoir jouyr loiallement de son estre). For that goal, the moral philosophy needs to know the real physiological and psychological powers and limits of human being, because wisdom must be useful et practicable. The knowing of the body in the Essais will lead to a deconstruction of the hylomorphic psychology and to the affirmation of the independence and autonomy of the body’s dynamism: the experience of the involuntary actions and sensible emotions arise without any reference to the aristotelic psyché, and the soul fell this events as affections. On the other side, the psychological knowledge tries to understand, b the introspection, the psychological acts (linked to imagination and judgement) that constitutes the emotions of the soul. By that understanding, the soul discover his power of arising the emotions, that witch give him the concrete possibility of manage the conflicts and the tensions between passions, using the power of other different passions. This process, in the third book of the Essais, sketch a real discipline of the soul that is an administration of the soul’s emotions («passions de l’ âme») and of the body’s emotions («passions corporelles»): the soul has to rest in connection with his body, and in doing so it can intensify the psychosomatic unity. It is in that unity, constantly reaffirmed, that man has access to the enjoyment of his proper being and to the moral perfection.
28-giu-2011
Settore M-FIL/03 - Filosofia Morale
Montaigne ; passioni ; fisiologia ; psicologia ; etica ; stoicismo ; inquietudine ; desiderio ; saggezza
MORMINO, GIANFRANCO
PETTOELLO, RENATO
Doctoral Thesis
«LA DIVERSITÉ DES NOS PASSIONS!»: CORPO, ANIMA E SAGGEZZA NEGLI ESSAIS DI MONTAIGNE / E. Ferrari ; tutor: Gianfranco Mormino ; co-tutor: Thierry Gontier ; coordinatore: Renato Pettoello. Universita' degli Studi di Milano, 2011 Jun 28. 22. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2009. [10.6092/ferrari-emiliano_phd2011-06-28].
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