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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Passions of the Soul

by René Descartes

Descartes' last published work, a treatise on the emotions written partly in response to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia. It explains how the soul, though immaterial, acts on the body through the pineal gland, and analyses the passions as products of that interaction.

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