Descartes on Laughter
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F25%3A00646298" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/25:00646298 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20252212" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20252212</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20252212" target="_blank" >10.5840/studneoar20252212</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Descartes on Laughter
Original language description
The paper argues that René Descartes developed his own version of an older scholastic (un-Hobbesian) doctrine by undermining a key element on which all previous participants of the debate had agreed. Namely, all the relevant early modern authors before Descartes (whether scholastics, Hobbes, or others) agreed that laughter must be an expression of joy in one form or another. The proposed interpretation thus challenges the idea that the so-called superiority theory prevailed in seventeenth-century philosophy. It stresses the significance of the scholastic tradition while at the same time pointing out Descartes’ specific and original position in the debate.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studia Neoaristotelica
ISSN
1214-8407
e-ISSN
1804-6843
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
48-69
UT code for WoS article
001700893400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105031920200