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This edited volume presents a general account of the concept of ‘mental power’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period analyzed, described, and conceived the human agent’s mental abilities and skills as governing perception, action and moral behavior.

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This edited volume presents a general account of the concept of ‘mental power’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period analyzed, described, and conceived the human agent’s mental abilities and skills as governing perception, action and moral behavior.

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