---
_id: '51030'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:p xml:lang="en">By pushing Descartes to more clearly explain the union
    of body and soul beyond the functioning of a ‘strong’ passion, namely sadness,
    Elisabeth wants Descartes to review his idea of the passions, and his understanding
    of the ‘theory of the four humors’. This chapter aims at showing that Descartes
    turns away from Galen’s theory of the humors, which he globally adopts in the
    1633 Treatise of Man. With the shift in his conceptualization of the humors between
    this Treatise and the Treatise of the Passions (1649), Descartes analyzed more
    specifically the inner feelings, consciousness, and the passions, by considering
    that a man is not simply a body, but a psychophysical being, with a body and a
    soul.</jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Jil
  full_name: Muller, Jil
  last_name: Muller
citation:
  ama: 'Muller J. Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology: The
    Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth. In: <i>Reading Descartes</i>.
    Firenze University Press; 2023. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05">10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05</a>'
  apa: 'Muller, J. (2023). Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology:
    The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth. In <i>Reading Descartes</i>.
    Firenze University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05">https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05</a>'
  bibtex: '@inbook{Muller_2023, place={Florence}, title={Humors, Passions, and Consciousness
    in Descartes’s Physiology: The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with
    Elisabeth}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05">10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05</a>},
    booktitle={Reading Descartes}, publisher={Firenze University Press}, author={Muller,
    Jil}, year={2023} }'
  chicago: 'Muller, Jil. “Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology:
    The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth.” In <i>Reading
    Descartes</i>. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05">https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05</a>.'
  ieee: 'J. Muller, “Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology:
    The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth,” in <i>Reading
    Descartes</i>, Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023.'
  mla: 'Muller, Jil. “Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology:
    The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth.” <i>Reading Descartes</i>,
    Firenze University Press, 2023, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05">10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05</a>.'
  short: 'J. Muller, in: Reading Descartes, Firenze University Press, Florence, 2023.'
date_created: 2024-01-30T12:56:15Z
date_updated: 2024-01-30T13:38:01Z
doi: 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.05
place: Florence
publication: Reading Descartes
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9791221501698'
  - '9791221501704'
  - '9791221501711'
  - '9791221501681'
publication_status: published
publisher: Firenze University Press
status: public
title: 'Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology: The Reconsideration
  through the Correspondence with Elisabeth'
type: book_chapter
user_id: '91668'
year: '2023'
...