Juan Luis Vives and the Emotions

Anticipating the fifth centennial of Vives' birth in 1992, this is the first comprehensive study of two of Vives' main works,De Anima et Vita, Book 3andDe Prima Philosophia,accompanied by the first general biography based on recent research. Juan Luis Vives was a Spanish sixteenth-century humanist who spent most of his life as an exile in England and the Low Countries.De Anima et Vita,the third book of which makes up the tract on emotions, represents the culmination of Vives' effort to understand human nature. Norena has organizedVives and the Emotionsinto three parts. Part one incorporates recent research on Vives and corrects some of the inaccuracies of Norena's 1970Luis Vives.He provides expanded accounts of Vives' attitude toward Erasmus and religion, his reaction to terminist logic, his social and legal views, and his contributions to Renaissance pedagogy. The second part of the book examines in detail one of Vives' most philosophical and forgotten tracts, a lengthy summary of his metaphysical views published in 1531 under the titleDe Prima Philosophia seu de Intimo Naturae Opificio,which is probably the most speculative of Vives' works. Part three compares Vives' thoughts on emotion to those of Aristotle, some ancient Stoic sources, Saint Thomas, Descartes, and Spinoza, while dividing the entire material under such headings as the nature, the classification, the interaction, and the therapeutic control of emotion.Norena, Carlos G. is the author of 'Juan Luis Vives and the Emotions' with ISBN 9780809315390 and ISBN 0809315394.