Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern PhilosophyThis 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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... Aquinas ( 1925 ) , vol . I. Pedro de Fonseca SJ , Principles of Logic , cited from Fonseca ( 1964 ) . Francisco ... Aquinas OP , Commentaries on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics , cited from Aquinas ( 1882 ) . St Thomas Aquinas OP , Summa ...
... Aquinas ( 1925 ) , vol . I. Pedro de Fonseca SJ , Principles of Logic , cited from Fonseca ( 1964 ) . Francisco ... Aquinas OP , Commentaries on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics , cited from Aquinas ( 1882 ) . St Thomas Aquinas OP , Summa ...
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... Aquinas's. Since he wanted to take their place in the School, he was careful to avoid alienating the Scholastic establishment. Nonetheless, he did not distort or hide his diverging views, views which were cast in concepts and terms ...
... Aquinas's. Since he wanted to take their place in the School, he was careful to avoid alienating the Scholastic establishment. Nonetheless, he did not distort or hide his diverging views, views which were cast in concepts and terms ...
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... Aquinas and Francisco Suárez, provides a framework from which to approach the Cartesian texts. As we shall see ... Aquinas and Suárez, have independent interest for the philosopher. In effect, it is both on historical and on ...
... Aquinas and Francisco Suárez, provides a framework from which to approach the Cartesian texts. As we shall see ... Aquinas and Suárez, have independent interest for the philosopher. In effect, it is both on historical and on ...
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... Aquinas, Suárez, and his other Late Scholastic predecessors and contempo- raries. This contrast guides the discussion undertaken in the rest of the book. In the first chapter I use it to introduce the main themes. In doing so, I lay out ...
... Aquinas, Suárez, and his other Late Scholastic predecessors and contempo- raries. This contrast guides the discussion undertaken in the rest of the book. In the first chapter I use it to introduce the main themes. In doing so, I lay out ...
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... Aquinas , and the Late Scholastics shared an ontology of sub- stances . For them , ' quid est ? ' inquires after a substantial nature ; it asks for the essential definition of a substance.6 ' Existentialism ' affirms the priority of ...
... Aquinas , and the Late Scholastics shared an ontology of sub- stances . For them , ' quid est ? ' inquires after a substantial nature ; it asks for the essential definition of a substance.6 ' Existentialism ' affirms the priority of ...
Contents
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Part II Ideas and the road from essence to existence | 75 |
Part III Cartesian substances | 181 |
Epilogue | 265 |
Notes | 270 |
References | 307 |
Index | 323 |
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According to Descartes actual apprehension Aquinas argued Aristotelian Aristotle Arnauld attribute awareness body Cartesian causal chapter claim clear and distinct clearly and distinctly colour conceived conception corporeal substance creatures dependence Descartes's determinable direct realist distinguished divine doctrine Duns Scotus effect efficient cause entity essence and existence essential definitions essentialist exist in reality existentialism existentialist explained extension external fact follows Fonseca formally Gassendi God’s grasp Hobbes human idea imagination immediate objects independent individual infinite infinite regress innate intellect intelligible Jesuit judgement knowledge Late Scholastic Leibniz matter metaphysics mind modes nature Nominalists notion objective reality ontological argument perceive philosophy possible Posterior Analytics predicate principle prior proof question real distinction real essences real properties refer relation Replies sceptical Scholasticism Second Meditation sensation sense sensory perception shape soul species St Thomas Suárez substantial suppose Third Meditation Thomist thought triangle true truth understanding unity universal