Are We Responsible for Laughing?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Mauricio Lecón ◽  
Keyword(s):  
De Anima ◽  
Compelling Argument ◽  
The Will ◽  
Francisco Suarez

In his Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima, Francisco Suárez offers a rich account of the psychology and physiology of laughter. Among other claims, he asserts that laughter is a voluntary act, without giving any further explanation. The aim of this paper is to glean from his texts a philosophically compelling argument for this claim. I will claim that for Suárez laughter is a commanded act of the will, since it somehow needs the will’s consent to be elicited. This kind of voluntariness is enough to make laughter morally relevant.

scholarly journals Como teria lido, Aristóteles, os 'Exercícios Espirituais? A leitura de 'De Anima' II 7-12 por Francisco de Toledo, Francisco Suárez e Manuel Góis

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (56) ◽  
pp. 411-432
Author(s):  
Mário Santiago De Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
De Anima ◽  
Francisco Suarez

Como é que três eminentes Jesuítas comentadores de Aristóteles poderiam ler o método concebido por Inácio de Loyola nos Exercícios Espirituais, denominado “aplicação dos sentidos” externos? A resposta a esta hipotética questão, absolutamente inédita, será dada em três passos. Começando com a doutrina dos sentidos e tocando na passagem da ontologia para a semiótica, atender-‑se-‑á ao aparecimento do mundo – mediante uma segunda passagem, da psicologia para a cosmologia – em que o lugar do ser humano, entendido no espaço de uma antropologia criatural, nos conduz a uma nova perceção das relações entre imaginação (do mundo) e espiritualidade mundana, na aceção de “incarnada”.

scholarly journals Requisitos formales de la volición: posibilidad y límite para un régimen autónomo de la acción personal en la filosofía de Francisco Suárez

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel PONCELA GONZÁLEZ
Keyword(s):  
Free Action ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
The Will ◽  
Francisco Suarez

Departing from a reduction of the person’s concept to one of his more typical notes, which is, the freedom, we propose a review of the theory of the free arbitrament exposed by Francisco Suárez, attending with exclusivity to his writings episthemics and metaphysicians more significant. The extension of the question urges us to reduce the company to his formal aspects. Departing from the comparison of the cognitive top powers of the person, we descend up to the conditions necessary for the disposition of the free action. They come to be interwoven in the study of the freedom, the problem of the determinism, so much of the understanding on the will, since of the divine affirm the personal freedom on determining those.

Doctrine of the will.

1846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asa Mahan
Keyword(s):  
The Will

The return of the will

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Assagioli
Keyword(s):  
The Will
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