Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy - Couverture rigide

Secada, Jorge

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521452910 ISBN 13 : 9780521452915

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

A novel and philosophically illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysics and its immediate historical context.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the first book-length study of Descartes's metaphysics to place it in its immediate historical context, the Late Scholastic philosophy of thinkers such as Suárez against which Descartes reacted. Jorge Secada views Cartesian philosophy as an 'essentialist' reply to the 'existentialism' of the School, and his discussion includes careful analyses and original interpretations of such central Cartesian themes as the role of scepticism, intentionality and the doctrine of the material falsity of ideas, universals and the relation between sense and understanding, causation and the proofs of the existence of God, the theory of substance, and the dualism of mind and matter. His study offers a picture of Descartes's metaphysics that is both novel and philosophically illuminating.

Revue de presse

'Secada's book is rich and interesting, and can be read with much profit.' The British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521452910
• ISBN 13: 9780521452915
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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