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STARZYNSKI, Wojciech. Admiration as a phenomenological principle of human subjectivity. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2020, vol.34, n.72, pp.1123-1140.  Epub 03-Fev-2022. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v34n72a2020-59283.

The text is a phenomenological analysis (mainly inspired by Ricœur) of the theme of admiration, which Descartes in the Passions of the Soul describes as a first and main passion. Considered as a principle of subjectivity, this passion would explain the non-theoretical access to the world and to oneself, and allows us to understand the constitution of such passionate subject. Analyzing this subject, called by Descartes the union of the soul and the body, the traditional categories of attention, imagination and finally, those of will and temporality are deeply reformulated. In the specific admiring mode of the subject, which is characterized by dynamic interaction of the soul and body, we can speak of the successive stages of passionate life, in which emerge the other “principal passions" (love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness), to finally find its culmination in an ethical experience of generosity.

Palavras-chave : passion; admiration; union of the soul and body; Descartes; Ricoeur.

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