Cartesian Ethical Loop
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.38
1. > General Presentation of *The Passions of the Soul*
Theoretical move: The passage presents the structural architecture of Descartes's *Passions of the Soul*, establishing that its tripartite organization moves from a general theory of affect toward an ethics, with wonder and generosity forming a pivotal "ethical loop" — a move that frames the classical entailment from affect theory to ethics as a necessary theoretical trajectory.
A strong, intimate link binds wonder to generosity and forms what we may call an ethical loop within the Treatise.