Experience and passion: Descartes, Spinoza and Hume

Abstract

This article is about the theory of passions of three important philosophers of modernity: Descartes, Spinoza, and Hume. It is intended to show the content of what these authors conceive as the motor of moral action. Each one, in his particular style, connects the theme of passions with his own theory of experience and the aim of action. It is a theoretical route of the passionate conceived as what marks the emancipation of the modern self.