The subject of passion

Continuing research into the archaeology of the subject, the lecture, in eighteen one-hour lessons, addressed the question of the subject of passion in philosophy and theology, following Late Antique and Medieval controversies, from the Cappadocian fathers (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Maxime le Confesseur) to the Sentences of Pierre Lombard, on Christ's prayer of agony and the "refusal of the Passion", to show the importance of Christological debates in the history of anthropology, while reintegrating the theology of the Greek Fathers into the history of so-called "European" thought. The study of the question "Who suffers on the cross? the study of the question "Who suffers on the cross?" has enabled us to identify the philosophical significance of "theopaschism" and theologies of "God's suffering", to examine on a new basis the question of "sharing suffering" (sympathy, empathy, compassion) posed as early as the Problemata of pseudo-Aristotle, to revisit the competing models for the union of soul and body in the Middle Ages (the Augustinian "perichoretic" model and the Aristotelian "attributivist" model), and to study their respective contributions to the solution of the problem of the unity of man, soul, mind and body, a subject that not only feels and thinks, but also desires and suffers.