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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The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. Cartesian. Metaphysics. 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 ...
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. Cartesian. Metaphysics. 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 ...
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The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. Preface. I began writing this book about twelve years ago, after finally abandoning the revision of my doctoral dissertation and deciding to instead start anew and write a fresh ...
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. Preface. I began writing this book about twelve years ago, after finally abandoning the revision of my doctoral dissertation and deciding to instead start anew and write a fresh ...
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The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. to the internal divisions. The editions cited are indicated in the list of abbreviations. Other references in the endnotes and elsewhere use an abbreviated nomen- clature which is ...
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. to the internal divisions. The editions cited are indicated in the list of abbreviations. Other references in the endnotes and elsewhere use an abbreviated nomen- clature which is ...
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... Scholastic contemporaries and predecessors, particularly Aquinas and Francisco Suárez, provides a framework from which to approach the Cartesian texts. As we shall see, Cartesian essentialism and Scholastic existentialism pre- suppose a ...
... Scholastic contemporaries and predecessors, particularly Aquinas and Francisco Suárez, provides a framework from which to approach the Cartesian texts. As we shall see, Cartesian essentialism and Scholastic existentialism pre- suppose a ...
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The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. there are such counterfactual truths, is one to suppose ... Scholastic context. Chapter 1 may serve as an introduction to this whole book. There I articulate the distinction ...
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. there are such counterfactual truths, is one to suppose ... Scholastic context. Chapter 1 may serve as an introduction to this whole book. There I articulate the distinction ...
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