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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... Truth , cited from Aquinas ( 1925 ) , vol . I. Pedro de Fonseca SJ , Principles of Logic , cited from Fonseca ( 1964 ) . Francisco Suárez SJ , Metaphysical Disputations , cited from Suárez ( 1614 ) , Suárez ( 1960-1966 ) , Suárez ( 1982 ) ...
... Truth , cited from Aquinas ( 1925 ) , vol . I. Pedro de Fonseca SJ , Principles of Logic , cited from Fonseca ( 1964 ) . Francisco Suárez SJ , Metaphysical Disputations , cited from Suárez ( 1614 ) , Suárez ( 1960-1966 ) , Suárez ( 1982 ) ...
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... truth being uncovered? Or are we rather making claims about the significance of his influence and effects on subsequent thinkers? No: the aim of this essay is simply to articulate the relation between Descartes and the Scholastics ...
... truth being uncovered? Or are we rather making claims about the significance of his influence and effects on subsequent thinkers? No: the aim of this essay is simply to articulate the relation between Descartes and the Scholastics ...
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... take place. Historiographers should exercise care when making claims about what could or could not be understood by some past philosopher. Assuming that there are such counterfactual truths, is one to suppose this 3 Prologue 3.
... take place. Historiographers should exercise care when making claims about what could or could not be understood by some past philosopher. Assuming that there are such counterfactual truths, is one to suppose this 3 Prologue 3.
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The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. there are such counterfactual truths, is one to suppose this is so even given exposure, on the part of the past thinker, to however long a conversation and to whatever experiences ...
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy Jorge Secada. there are such counterfactual truths, is one to suppose this is so even given exposure, on the part of the past thinker, to however long a conversation and to whatever experiences ...
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... truths which I propound ' ( AT , VII , 171–2 ) . These two aims are not independent : the certainty which attaches to the truths of the Cartesian metaphysics is the result of a purely intellectual exercise , where the mind disregards ...
... truths which I propound ' ( AT , VII , 171–2 ) . These two aims are not independent : the certainty which attaches to the truths of the Cartesian metaphysics is the result of a purely intellectual exercise , where the mind disregards ...
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