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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. articulation of these opposing doctrines as they appear in ... doctrine of ideas, he cast it in the terminology of the School. Already in the Rules for the Direction of the Mind ...
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. articulation of these opposing doctrines as they appear in ... doctrine of ideas, he cast it in the terminology of the School. Already in the Rules for the Direction of the Mind ...
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... doctrine , first , that one cannot know the existence ( essence ) of any substance without knowing its essence ( existence ) , and secondly , that one can know the essence ( existence ) of some substance without knowing its existence ...
... doctrine , first , that one cannot know the existence ( essence ) of any substance without knowing its essence ( existence ) , and secondly , that one can know the essence ( existence ) of some substance without knowing its existence ...
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... doctrine. The texts quoted earlier establish beyond dispute that Descartes held the essentialist dependence thesis. Similarly, the passages cited from Aquinas, Fonseca, Toledo and Suárez leave little room for doubt that they believed in ...
... doctrine. The texts quoted earlier establish beyond dispute that Descartes held the essentialist dependence thesis. Similarly, the passages cited from Aquinas, Fonseca, Toledo and Suárez leave little room for doubt that they believed in ...
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... doctrine that to be possible is to be actual at some time.12 Aristotelian exegesis, however, is not our concern; and this was certainly not what the Scholastics held. Suárez and St Thomas believed that there are many kinds and ...
... doctrine that to be possible is to be actual at some time.12 Aristotelian exegesis, however, is not our concern; and this was certainly not what the Scholastics held. Suárez and St Thomas believed that there are many kinds and ...
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