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For Coleridge, ‘the riddle of humanity’ is the co-existence in each individual of ‘life and mind’ and of what he considers our shared ‘human nature’ and the uniqueness of the person. He kept asking whether life can shape itself into mind, and, if it can, how human nature develops into human uniqueness. The chapter discusses Coleridge’s Theory of Life, ‘Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality’, the fragments ‘True Love Illustrated …Geometrically’ (1812) and ‘On the Passions’ (1828; Shorter Works, 1: 285–7; 2: 1419–53) to argue that passions play a prime role in the passage from life to mind and from human nature to human uniqueness. Re-contextualising Opus Maximum, it also shows that maternal love guides the infant from being a general member of the human species to becoming a unique human individual, a person.

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Coleridge and Human Individuation: The Passions

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    2025年

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  • Andrea Timár

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For Coleridge, ‘the riddle of humanity’ is the co-existence in each individual of ‘life and mind’ and of what he considers our shared ‘human nature’ and the uniqueness of the person. He kept asking whether life can shape itself into mind, and, if it can, how human nature develops into human uniqueness. The chapter discusses Coleridge’s Theory of Life, ‘Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality’, the fragments ‘True Love Illustrated …Geometrically’ (1812) and ‘On the Passions’ (1828; Shorter Works, 1: 285–7; 2: 1419–53) to argue that passions play a prime role in the passage from life to mind and from human nature to human uniqueness. Re-contextualising Opus Maximum, it also shows that maternal love guides the infant from being a general member of the human species to becoming a unique human individual, a person.