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I place this chapter immediately after the preceding one because these kinds of inclination and aversion are genuine passions; they have the same origin and are stimulated or perceived by the soul in similar ways. By ‘natural aversions or inclinations which are caused exclusviely by the body’ I mean those where we can give no good reason why we love or hate certain things.215
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A reference to Gaius Mucius (later known as Scaevola) who put his hand in a fire to show the bravery with which Roman youths would battle with Porsinna, the Etruscan king. Livy, History of Rome, trans. B. O. Foster (Lond: Heinemann, and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967), vol. I, Book II, ch. 12, line 13: `He allowed his hand to bum as if his spirit were unconscious of sensation.’
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Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.’ Martial, Epigrams, Bk. I, 32nd epigram.
Descartes to Chanut, 6 June 1647: AT V, 56–7; CSMK III, 322 (Lettres I, 154–5 ).
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De La Forge, L. (1997). The Origin of the Natural Inclinations and Aversions which are caused exclusively by the Body. In: Treatise on the Human Mind (1664). International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3590-2_22
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