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 11
... sensation. Consider now, within this Scholastic framework, a claim to knowledge of essence in the absence of knowledge of existence. The essence in question must have been fashioned by the intellect. How, then, is it known that what has ...
... sensation. Consider now, within this Scholastic framework, a claim to knowledge of essence in the absence of knowledge of existence. The essence in question must have been fashioned by the intellect. How, then, is it known that what has ...
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... sensation in the following ways. First, the conception of an essence is taken from what has been furnished by sensation. Secondly, as we have just seen, knowledge of essence presup- poses knowledge of existence; and on their view this ...
... sensation in the following ways. First, the conception of an essence is taken from what has been furnished by sensation. Secondly, as we have just seen, knowledge of essence presup- poses knowledge of existence; and on their view this ...
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... sensation, feeling, and the other determinations of thought. The essence of body is extension conceived as size, shape, and movement or rest; and its accidents are determinate sizes, shapes and amounts of motion. If someone knows that a ...
... sensation, feeling, and the other determinations of thought. The essence of body is extension conceived as size, shape, and movement or rest; and its accidents are determinate sizes, shapes and amounts of motion. If someone knows that a ...
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... sensation is manifest in the treatment of the acquisition of knowledge that a substance exists . Toledo notes ' that we do not ask of everything whether it exists , but of things which do not fall under the senses ; of those which are ...
... sensation is manifest in the treatment of the acquisition of knowledge that a substance exists . Toledo notes ' that we do not ask of everything whether it exists , but of things which do not fall under the senses ; of those which are ...
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... sensation to represent actual things , but how they dealt with this fact . They did not admit proofs of existence independent of the sensory perception of actual substances ; they needed to dispose of sceptical considerations without ...
... sensation to represent actual things , but how they dealt with this fact . They did not admit proofs of existence independent of the sensory perception of actual substances ; they needed to dispose of sceptical considerations without ...
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