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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... Principles of Logic or Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics and Francisco Toledo's Commentaries on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, I add volume and page numbers in the cited edition after the reference to the internal divisions. The ...
... Principles of Logic or Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics and Francisco Toledo's Commentaries on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, I add volume and page numbers in the cited edition after the reference to the internal divisions. The ...
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... Principles of Logic , cited from Fonseca ( 1964 ) . Francisco Suárez SJ , Metaphysical Disputations , cited from Suárez ( 1614 ) , Suárez ( 1960-1966 ) , Suárez ( 1982 ) , and Suárez ( 1983 ) . St Thomas Aquinas OP , Commentaries on ...
... Principles of Logic , cited from Fonseca ( 1964 ) . Francisco Suárez SJ , Metaphysical Disputations , cited from Suárez ( 1614 ) , Suárez ( 1960-1966 ) , Suárez ( 1982 ) , and Suárez ( 1983 ) . St Thomas Aquinas OP , Commentaries on ...
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... principle for a wide range of the practices in which we think and act and deal with the world'.3 By approaching the Cartesian metaphysics as it was conceived of by Descartes – as, that is, an essentialist response to the existentialism ...
... principle for a wide range of the practices in which we think and act and deal with the world'.3 By approaching the Cartesian metaphysics as it was conceived of by Descartes – as, that is, an essentialist response to the existentialism ...
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... Principles of Logic : ' first we show that a thing exists , next what it is ' ( ID , VII , 40 ; see also V , 8 ; II , p . 606 and I , p . 314 ) . Cardinal Francisco Toledo , in his Commentaries on Aristotle's Logic noted : ' if these ...
... Principles of Logic : ' first we show that a thing exists , next what it is ' ( ID , VII , 40 ; see also V , 8 ; II , p . 606 and I , p . 314 ) . Cardinal Francisco Toledo , in his Commentaries on Aristotle's Logic noted : ' if these ...
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... principle was adopted by most Aristotelians and in particular by the Late Scholastics Descartes read and studied at the Jesuit school in La Flèche ( see AT , VI , 37 ) . Suárez stated that 'all our knowledge originates in the senses ...
... principle was adopted by most Aristotelians and in particular by the Late Scholastics Descartes read and studied at the Jesuit school in La Flèche ( see AT , VI , 37 ) . Suárez stated that 'all our knowledge originates in the senses ...
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