This article aims to analyse the governmental rationalities that took passions as an object in the French seventeenth century, unleashing the modern transformation in emotional power. The classical question of the intertwining between emotions and rationality is approached through a cultural and historical perspective, analyzing historically situated discourses that define political rationalities that propose to govern, with specific techniques and objectives, certain “emotions”’ that are conceived in a certain way. Passions emerged as an object of government through the statement that passions and not inactive reason were the true drivers of human action. Analyzing the treatises on the government of passions as “arts of government” aimed at the authorities of the period, this article explores initially how Neostoic discourses promoted an exchange between Augustinian government of the will and reason of state’s strategies of manipulation of interests. Subsequently, by scrutinizing the texts of French moralists of the second half of the century, this article shows how, under the influence of Jansenism, they invert Neostoic logic and affirm a new emotional rule for political government: enlightened self-love. The idea that the commerce of selfish passions in the market could promote social peace and material progress cleared the path for the acceptance of a concupiscent order. The article’s contribution resides firstly in the history of the shift in the West’s fundamental emotional rule, love, and secondly in the way in which emotional power could work as a condition of possibility for the emergence of modern economic rationality.

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现代情感力量的出现：控制法国大世纪时期的激情

本文旨在分析法国17世纪以激情为对象的政府理性，释放了情感力量的现代转型。通过文化和历史的视角来解决情感与理性之间交织的经典问题，分析历史定位的话语，这些话语定义了政治理性，建议以特定的技术和目标来管理以某种方式构想的某些“情绪” . 通过以下声明，激情而不是不活跃的理性是人类行动的真正驱动力，激情成为政府的对象。分析关于激情管理的论文是针对那个时期的权威的“管理艺术”，本文初步探讨了新斯多葛主义话语如何促进奥古斯丁的意志政府与国家操纵利益的策略之间的交流。随后，本文通过细读本世纪下半叶法国道德家的文本，展示了他们如何在詹森主义的影响下，颠倒新斯多葛逻辑，并肯定了政治政府的新情感规则：开明的自爱。市场上自私的激情交易可以促进社会和平和物质进步的想法为接受贪婪的秩序扫清了道路。这篇文章的贡献首先在于西方基本情感规则——爱、