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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... of this essay. Accordingly, I hope the reader who is seeking an introductory summary will allow me to refer her to that initial chapter. Part I The unity of Cartesian metaphysics 1 Descartes's essentialist 4 4 Prologue.
... of this essay. Accordingly, I hope the reader who is seeking an introductory summary will allow me to refer her to that initial chapter. Part I The unity of Cartesian metaphysics 1 Descartes's essentialist 4 4 Prologue.
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... referring to the Scholastic tradition, Fonseca did not exaggerate when he claimed that 'all philosophers affirm' that 'nothing is grasped by the intellect which was not first known in some way by the senses' (CM, I, I, q. 4, 3). The ...
... referring to the Scholastic tradition, Fonseca did not exaggerate when he claimed that 'all philosophers affirm' that 'nothing is grasped by the intellect which was not first known in some way by the senses' (CM, I, I, q. 4, 3). The ...
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... referring to a substance without determining what its essence is . To begin justifying an essentialist dependence ... refer to actual effects , causes or properties . Thus , if ' vacuum ' means ' a place lacking body ' , then from the ...
... referring to a substance without determining what its essence is . To begin justifying an essentialist dependence ... refer to actual effects , causes or properties . Thus , if ' vacuum ' means ' a place lacking body ' , then from the ...
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... refer more closely to the Meditations. We will begin with some remarks about the order and structure of this work ... referring to geometrical truths. Later, at the beginning of the Sixth Meditation, he maintains that this knowledge ...
... refer more closely to the Meditations. We will begin with some remarks about the order and structure of this work ... referring to geometrical truths. Later, at the beginning of the Sixth Meditation, he maintains that this knowledge ...
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