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• W2599307318 abstract "HASSING, Richard. Cartesian Psychophysics and the Whole Nature of Man: On Descartes' Passions of the Soul. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. xvi + 229 pp. Cloth, $90.00--Richard Hassing's monograph is to my knowledge the first full-length study of Descartes's Passions of the Soul. Adverting in a final appendix to two primary schools of Cartesian scholarship, one focusing on Descartes the metaphysician (substance proofs for God, and the like) and the other on Descartes as principally concerned with mathematical physics and a distinctly modern conception of the self, Hassing himself belongs unabashedly to the latter (minority) camp. With specific respect to mathematical physics, though, while there is still a school of history and philosophy of science that regards Descartes the philosopher as a kind of metaphysical interloper on the more genuinely empirical Galilean-Newtonian trajectory of seventeenth-century science, Descartes is nevertheless generally recognized today as the chief intellectual architect of the modern scientific worldview, and his significance on that count has been addressed fairly exhaustively. Hassing accordingly turns his attention to the second theme (emergence of the modern self) and presents a careful, indeed meticulous, explanation and interpretation of Descartes's final work, the Passions of the Soul. Steeped not just in the Cartesian corpus itself but also the massive secondary literature, Hassing focuses specifically on a number of themes he regards as having received less attention in this scholarly literature, among which this reviewer found most compelling Hassing's identification and delineation of a third form of Cartesian beyond both Descartes's familiar metaphysical dualism and the lesser-known but arguably even more significant epistemological dualism, as Hassing calls it, first pointed out by Richard Kennington, between the light of (scientific reason) and the teaching of (inherent practical instincts and natural egoism of the human mind-body composite). Hassing demonstrates that only a third and final Cartesian between the biologically given nature of the mind-body composite and a historically malleable human nature, subject to scientifically controlled improvement, adequately captures the nature of man in Descartes's doctrine: for the first dualism (dual substance) does not regard human nature (mind-body composite) as a whole, while the second regards that whole nature solely in terms of its baseline maintenance of our animal life. But on Descartes's view it is precisely through transcending our given biological nature--bodily desires, passions, and sense-based cognitions--that we strive after the higher goods, ultimately personal autonomy, as expressed in the virtue of generosity, and the intellectual love of God. …" @default.
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