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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Page i
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page vii
... Scepticism , Scholasticism and the origins of Descartes's philosophy 27 3 Cartesian real essences 5355 Part II Ideas and the road from essence to existence 4 Ideas and the world in the mind 77 5 My wax , my intellect and I 115 6 ...
... Scepticism , Scholasticism and the origins of Descartes's philosophy 27 3 Cartesian real essences 5355 Part II Ideas and the road from essence to existence 4 Ideas and the world in the mind 77 5 My wax , my intellect and I 115 6 ...
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... scepticism will be deemed important concerns of Descartes by most of my readers. But, precisely, I wish to look at Descartes's thought from its own context and circumstances. This essay does not answer the following questions: how did ...
... scepticism will be deemed important concerns of Descartes by most of my readers. But, precisely, I wish to look at Descartes's thought from its own context and circumstances. This essay does not answer the following questions: how did ...
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... sceptical considerations in the construction of a true science of being . The rationale of Cartesian essentialism II : knowledge , scepticism and the critique of the senses Scholastic reliance on sensation is manifest in the treatment ...
... sceptical considerations in the construction of a true science of being . The rationale of Cartesian essentialism II : knowledge , scepticism and the critique of the senses Scholastic reliance on sensation is manifest in the treatment ...
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... sceptical considerations without giving up on the notion that the senses give access to a world of real and truly existing things . This is radically different from the way in which Descartes incorporated scepticism with regards to the ...
... sceptical considerations without giving up on the notion that the senses give access to a world of real and truly existing things . This is radically different from the way in which Descartes incorporated scepticism with regards to 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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Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada Limited preview - 2000 |
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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