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René Descartes’s philosophy is often presented as a system grounded in metaphysics, with physics and the other sciences developing from its first principles. But how secure is this foundation?
This book examines the relationship between metaphysics and physics in Descartes’s philosophy and investigates how that relationship was interpreted by the first generation of French Cartesians. Beginning with Descartes’s own writings, it explores the philosophical challenges involved in deriving natural philosophy from metaphysical principles and follows their development in the works of Jacques du Roure, Géraud de Cordemoy, François Bayle, and Jacques Rohault.
Through detailed analyses of these authors, the study offers a fresh perspective on the emergence of Cartesianism in seventeenth-century France and demonstrates how the debates among Descartes’s earliest followers illuminate unresolved questions in Descartes’s own thought. Combining close textual scholarship with the history of philosophy and science, the book is an important contribution to the study of Descartes, Cartesianism, and early modern philosophy.
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René Descartes is famous for his metaphysical foundation of his philosophical system. The image of the philosophical tree that he presents in the preface-letter to the French edition of the Principles of Philosophy (1647) offers a straightforward depiction of an organic growth of the philosophical system out of the metaphysical roots. This Cartesian metaphor was copiously exploited by the first Cartesians, who often attempted to represent Descartes’s whole system as developing from metaphysical roots. However, the relations between metaphysics, physics, and the rest of the philosophical disciplines were deeply problematic. The book explores the difficulties of the alleged underpinning of Descartes’s physics into the metaphysics. It starts from Descartes’s own works, but expands into an investigation of the early reception of Cartesian physics in the French context. It gives an account of several first-generation Cartesians (Jacques du Roure, Géraud de Cordemoy, François Bayle, and Jacques Rohault), especially of how such figures discussed the passage from metaphysics to physics. The book offers a detailed discussion of the relevant writings of these authors, especially of those publications concerned with the foundation of natural philosophy and with its relation to metaphysics. The study of early forms of French Cartesianism is done also to refer back to Descartes, such that the solutions provided by his early followers are called to provide a better understanding of the philosophical problems identified in the writings of their more famous contemporary.
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Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: Between Metaphysics and Physics
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