Wonder (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.
wonder is the first of all the passions. It has no opposite, because if the object presented has nothing in it that surprises us, we are not in the least moved by it and regard it without passion.