 Few areas of early modern philosophy remained untouched by at least some theory of the emotions. What follows is simply a cursory overview of some issues of general interest. But since early modern understandings of the emotions often made unexpected connections between diverse areas of philosophy, we may find that investigation reshapes our map of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy. Certainly, the understanding of the emotions produced in one area of philosophy was not isolated from their treatment in other areas.