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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... 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. Jorge Secada is Associate Professor ...
... 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. Jorge Secada is Associate Professor ...
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... proofs of God's existence.2 In either case we have been left without a proper account of their meaning or of their place within the Cartesian corpus . This neglect is unjustified and needs to be redressed . The view expressed is quite ...
... proofs of God's existence.2 In either case we have been left without a proper account of their meaning or of their place within the Cartesian corpus . This neglect is unjustified and needs to be redressed . The view expressed is quite ...
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... proofs of existence : effects , final , material and efficient causes ( TPA , II , 2 ; II , p . 415a ) . For example , if food is something required for the sustenance of life , then from the existence of living animals we can ...
... proofs of existence : effects , final , material and efficient causes ( TPA , II , 2 ; II , p . 415a ) . For example , if food is something required for the sustenance of life , then from the existence of living animals we can ...
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... proof of existence which relies solely on premisses independent of sensation . Proofs of existence include statements of the essence of the substances whose existence they demonstrate . These essential definitions are the result , on ...
... proof of existence which relies solely on premisses independent of sensation . Proofs of existence include statements of the essence of the substances whose existence they demonstrate . These essential definitions are the result , on ...
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... proof requires inspection of God's nature, for it argues that necessary existence is entailed by God's essence. The first proof in the Third Meditation is based on the principle that the total cause of an idea must account for the ...
... proof requires inspection of God's nature, for it argues that necessary existence is entailed by God's essence. The first proof in the Third Meditation is based on the principle that the total cause of an idea must account for 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