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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... existence of God 148 Part III Cartesian substances 7 The substantial tension 183 8 The essence and the existence of Cartesian substances 205 9 The real distinction or the body and the minds 236 Epilogue References Index 265 307 323 ...
... existence of God 148 Part III Cartesian substances 7 The substantial tension 183 8 The essence and the existence of Cartesian substances 205 9 The real distinction or the body and the minds 236 Epilogue References Index 265 307 323 ...
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... existence . In his replies to Johannes Caterus , the Scholastic author of the First Objections to the Meditations , he stated that ' according to the rules of true logic we must never ask whether something exists [ an_est ] unless we ...
... existence . In his replies to Johannes Caterus , the Scholastic author of the First Objections to the Meditations , he stated that ' according to the rules of true logic we must never ask whether something exists [ an_est ] unless we ...
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... existence of a substance over knowledge of its nature ; ' essentialism ' , on the other hand , is the view that knowledge of the essence of a substance is prior to knowledge of its existence.7 One could of course deny the priority both ...
... existence of a substance over knowledge of its nature ; ' essentialism ' , on the other hand , is the view that knowledge of the essence of a substance is prior to knowledge of its existence.7 One could of course deny the priority both ...
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... existence and ignore its essence . Essentialist and existentialist could therefore agree that in the case of a certain substance knowledge of its essence and knowledge of its existence cannot be had one without the other . We shall see ...
... existence and ignore its essence . Essentialist and existentialist could therefore agree that in the case of a certain substance knowledge of its essence and knowledge of its existence cannot be had one without the other . We shall see ...
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... existence of the self , of God , and of material substance . The rationale of Scholastic existentialism Descartes did not want to claim merely that to know that something exists one must have some answer , however general , to the ...
... existence of the self , of God , and of material substance . The rationale of Scholastic existentialism Descartes did not want to claim merely that to know that something exists one must have some answer , however general , to the ...
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