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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... impossible to know the essence of a goat - stag , for there is nothing of such kind in reality . Aquinas held that knowledge of existence is prior to knowledge 7 1 Descartes's essentialist metaphysics Cartesian essentialism and ...
... impossible to know the essence of a goat - stag , for there is nothing of such kind in reality . Aquinas held that knowledge of existence is prior to knowledge 7 1 Descartes's essentialist metaphysics Cartesian essentialism and ...
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... impossible for us to know that a thing exists except through some account of that thing ' ( PA , II , 8 , 6 ) . Aquinas accepts that some background understanding is required for knowledge of the existence of a substance , but he denies ...
... impossible for us to know that a thing exists except through some account of that thing ' ( PA , II , 8 , 6 ) . Aquinas accepts that some background understanding is required for knowledge of the existence of a substance , but he denies ...
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... impossible to know the nature of what does not exist because there is nothing with that essence in reality. This might suggest that he believed that one cannot know the nature of what does not exist because there are no possible but non ...
... impossible to know the nature of what does not exist because there is nothing with that essence in reality. This might suggest that he believed that one cannot know the nature of what does not exist because there are no possible but non ...
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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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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