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Habit

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
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In the Renaissance, habits have provided the keystone for all theories of subjectivity. It is the knowing subject that posits itself out of itself, namely, in what it knows, in order to bring back what it has known into the subjectivity of its mind.

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  • Pozzo, Riccardo. 2002. Ramus and other renaissance philosophers on subjectivity. Topoi 22: 5–13.

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Pozzo, R. (2016). Habit. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_198-1

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_198-1