Moral Concepts and their History by Edward Skidelsky

Author:Edward Skidelsky [Skidelsky, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367764760
Google: iGeQzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2021-12-20T02:49:32+00:00

59 Victoria Kahn notes that Descartes’ ‘ideal of self-government has much in common with the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.’ Victoria Kahn, ‘Happy Tears: Baroque Politics in Descartes’ Passions de l’âme’, in Politics and the Passions, 1500–1850, ed. Daniel Coli, Victoria Kahn, and Neil Saccamano (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), n. 11.

60 According to Sarah Marquardt, Descartes, scarred by what he witnessed of the Thirty Years War, deliberately took the concept of generosity – long associated with a hierarchical and martial aristocratic culture – and refashioned it into the form of humility necessary for a ‘culture of peace.’ Sarah Marquardt, ‘The Long Road to Peace: Descartes’ Modernization of Generosity in The Passions of the Soul (1649)’, History of Political Thought 26, no. 1 (2015): 56.

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