@article{2017,title={THE SUPREMACY OF REASON, WILL AND VIRTUE IN DESCARTES’S MORAL THEORY},abstractNode={Descartes’s theory of morals whose general framework is given both in his correspondence with Elizabeth of Bohemia and his last published work, The Passions of the Soul has the feature of a proposal for happy and virtuous life. Starting off the nature and physical mechanism of passions Descartes aspires to establish a moral system which is based upon right use of reason and will. His theory can also be considered as therapeutic in the sense that it offers remedies for disorder of passions and harmful effects of excessive passions. The aim of this paper is to analyse Descartes’s moral theory first by focusing on his view regarding union between mind and body then, dwelling upon the mechanism and the structure of the passions. The significance of virtue and role of reason and will in mastery of passions will also be elaborated in this paper.},author={Işıl Çeşmeli},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}