Philosophische Anthropologie der Leidenschaften

Über den Menschen als körperliches Wesen

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The term “passion” refers to states in which human beings are fully intent on performing a particular activity. As a critical adjunct to Helmuth Plessner’s theory of sentient beings, Björn Sydow conceptualizes human action not as the effect of mental states but rather as the actualization of potentials that may be regarded as the differentiation of physical beings from their embeddedness in the world.