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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... discussion, nor to provide a sustained examination of the whole of his main work, the Meditations on First Philosophy, let alone of the entire corpus of his writings. Its aim is more modest. It seeks to offer a unified reading of ...
... discussion, nor to provide a sustained examination of the whole of his main work, the Meditations on First Philosophy, let alone of the entire corpus of his writings. Its aim is more modest. It seeks to offer a unified reading of ...
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... 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 the plan of this essay. Accordingly, I hope the reader who is seeking an introductory summary will allow ...
... 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 the plan of this essay. Accordingly, I hope the reader who is seeking an introductory summary will allow ...
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... discussing all held, with Descartes, that in order to know that F is the essence of a substance it is not enough to know that F is a possible property; one must know also that F stands in a certain relation to the substance. The essence ...
... discussing all held, with Descartes, that in order to know that F is the essence of a substance it is not enough to know that F is a possible property; one must know also that F stands in a certain relation to the substance. The essence ...
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... discussion started concerns the logical relations between a substance, its essence and its 'intrinsic' accidents, those non-essential properties which inhere in it.17 Descartes understood inherence as determination, and accidents or ...
... discussion started concerns the logical relations between a substance, its essence and its 'intrinsic' accidents, those non-essential properties which inhere in it.17 Descartes understood inherence as determination, and accidents or ...
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