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

Secada, Jorge

 
9780521616140: Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy
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ISBN 10 : 052161614X ISBN 13 : 9780521616140
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052161614X
ISBN 13 
9780521616140
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
348
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ISBN 10 :  0521452910 ISBN 13 :  9780521452915
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000
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