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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... requires the examination of actual specimens. That this is so is sug- gested already by the claim that what a substance is in potency can be known only through its actualizations; it can be appreciated further from the following ...
... requires the examination of actual specimens. That this is so is sug- gested already by the claim that what a substance is in potency can be known only through its actualizations; it can be appreciated further from the following ...
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... 49. See also ID , VII , passim ; II , pp . 454-624 ; on instantaneous motion see AT , VIII – 1 , 64 and XI , 45. ) Scholastic demonstrations of existence require an existential premiss . Ultimately Descartes's essentialist metaphysics 15.
... 49. See also ID , VII , passim ; II , pp . 454-624 ; on instantaneous motion see AT , VIII – 1 , 64 and XI , 45. ) Scholastic demonstrations of existence require an existential premiss . Ultimately Descartes's essentialist metaphysics 15.
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The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. Scholastic demonstrations of existence require an existential premiss . Ultimately they rely for this premiss not on further demonstration leading to a never - ending regress but ...
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. Scholastic demonstrations of existence require an existential premiss . Ultimately they rely for this premiss not on further demonstration leading to a never - ending regress but ...
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... 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 object or ...
... 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 object or ...
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... require intentional species or forms which humans can acquire only through the senses. No self-knowledge is sensorial; but both kinds require the exercise of the senses. According to Aquinas, 'what is first known by the human intellect ...
... require intentional species or forms which humans can acquire only through the senses. No self-knowledge is sensorial; but both kinds require the exercise of the senses. According to Aquinas, 'what is first known by the human intellect ...
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