Abstract
Against
rationalist assumptions on human nature, Gulliver’s Travels… offers a trip
through human passions to reveal how far are humans from being rational
creatures as it has been philosophically assumed. The set of passions embodied
by characters-symbols are shown in action through different perspectives,
assuming rational appearances and outcomes. All this leads us to question
whether reason is capable of describing and ultimately amending passions,
without becoming or discovering itself as the most powerful of them at once,
but not being ultimately more than “a slave of passions” or a passion itself.
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