Generosity (Cartesian)
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.42
1. > General Presentation of *The Passions of the Soul* > From Wonder to Generosity
Theoretical move: The passage traces Descartes's account of wonder as the foundational passion—prior to judgment, evaluation, and will—and shows how it grounds generosity as a self-directed wonder that paradoxically enables proper regard for others, raising the question of whether this movement from self-esteem to other-esteem is genuine openness or merely projection of the self onto alterity.
Generosity produces a kind of self-directed wonder, or esteem, grounded in our recognition 'that nothing really belongs to us other than the free disposition of our volitions.'