Nicolas Caussin

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Nicolas Caussin (1583-1651) was a Jesuit theorist of the passions writing in seventeenth century France. His treatise, The Holy Court Fourth Tome, was published in 1638. This work gives a Christianized account of what he calls the four principal passions: Love, Desire, Anger, and Envy, as well as many variants and sub-genres of these types. The intent of the work is to instruct the proper means for controlling these affects. For a comparable contemporary analysis of the passions that is relatively secular in orientation, see the Passions of the Soul by the philosopher René Descartes.

Caussin was part of French court life until he fell out with Cardinal Richelieu.[1]

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  1. ^ Nicolas Caussin. Catholic Encyclopedia.
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