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Reason, Passion and the Will

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

İlham Dilman
İlham Dilman
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University College of Swansea
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Extract

Fulke Greville speaks of the will as inevitably divided between reason and passion. Shakespeare takes such a division seriously but, through Hamlet, he recognizes the possibility of reason and passion being united in a man's will and purpose.

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Philosophy , Volume 59 , Issue 228 , April 1984 , pp. 185 - 204
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1984

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