Self-Knowledge and Hume Phenomenology of the Passions

Taxonomies of the passions have long claimed to serve this quest for self-knowledge, by specifying conditions under which certain passions arise, formal objects they possess, and qualities essential to their feelings. Naming the passions we experience, it seems, helps us achieve self-knowledge. To name something is to gain power ................
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