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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... considered the possibility of an angel forcing the intellect to assent to what is false.) The interesting and pertinent issue is not whether Aquinas and his Jesuit followers allowed for the failure of sensation to represent actual ...
... considered the possibility of an angel forcing the intellect to assent to what is false.) The interesting and pertinent issue is not whether Aquinas and his Jesuit followers allowed for the failure of sensation to represent actual ...
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... considered in the lines before this phrase is whether at the strongest moment of the doubt one could not conclude that one was something, given that one had thoughts. Descartes then adds: 'But I have just said that I have no senses and ...
... considered in the lines before this phrase is whether at the strongest moment of the doubt one could not conclude that one was something, given that one had thoughts. Descartes then adds: 'But I have just said that I have no senses and ...
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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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Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada Limited preview - 2000 |
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