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Author | : Paul Hoffman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-04-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199717545 |
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This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years. The essays in Part I include his celebrated "The Unity of Descartes' Man," in which he argues that Descartes accepts the Aristotelian view that soul and body are related as form to matter and that the human being is a substance; a series of subsequent essays elaborating on this interpretation and defending it against objections; and an essay on Descartes' theory of distinction. In the essays in Part II he argues that Descartes retains the Aristotelian theory of causation according to which an agent's action is the same as the passion it brings about, and explains the significance of this doctrine for understanding Descartes' dualism and physics. In the essays in Part III he argues that Descartes accepts the Aristotelian theory of cognition according to which perception is possible because things that exist in the world are also capable of a different way of existing in the soul, and he shows how this theory figures in Descartes' account of misrepresentation and in the controversy over whether Descartes is a direct realist or a representationalist. The essays in Part IV examine Descartes' theory of the passions of the soul: their definition; their effect on our happiness, virtue, and freedom; and methods of controlling them.
Author | : Amélie Rorty |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780520054967 |
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Author | : Stephen Voss |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019507551X |
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In English, with some essays translated from French. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author | : René Descartes |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2000-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1603840176 |
Download Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
Author | : Michael Hooker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Cottingham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008-09-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191551635 |
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John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life. He also examines ways in which his philosophy has been misunderstood. The Cartesian mind-body dualism that is so often attacked is only a part of Descartes's account of what it is to be a thinking, sentient, human creature, and the way he makes the division between the mental and the physical is considerably more subtle, and philosophically more appealing, than is generally assumed. Although Descartes is often considered to be one of the heralds of our modern secular worldview, the 'new' philosophy which he launched retains many links with the ideas of his predecessors, not least in the all-pervasive role it assigns to God (something that is ignored or downplayed by many modern readers); and the character of the Cartesian outlook is multifaceted, sometimes anticipating Enlightenment ideas of human autonomy and independent scientific inquiry, but also sometimes harmonizing with more traditional notions of human nature as created to find fulfilment in harmony with its creator.
Author | : Amélie Oksenberg Rorty |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520907833 |
Download Essays on Descartes' Meditations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowledge of the world. There are essays on the genre of meditational writing, on the implications of the opening cathartic section of the book on Descartes' theory of perception and his use of skeptical arguments; essays on the theory of ideas and their role of Descartes' reconstructive analytic method; essays on the proofs for the existence of God, on the role of the will in the formation and malformation of judgments; and the essays on the foundations of the science of extension and on Descartes' account of the union of mind and body.
Author | : Harry M. Bracken |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110850419 |
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Author | : G.H. Von Wright |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 1998-03-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 079234992X |
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Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. But he also thought that the two interact with one another. Is such interaction possible, however, without either a materialist reduction of mind to matter or an idealist (phenomenalist) reduction of matter to mind? These questions overshadow the Western tradition in metaphysics from the time of Descartes to present times. The book makes an effort to stay clear of reductivist views of the two Cartesian substances. It defends a dualistic psycho-physical parallel theory which reconciles freedom of action with determinism in nature. Basic problems in perception theory are also discussed, with special emphasis on hearing and sound. Because of the intrinsic interest of the subject and the author's non-technical presentation of it, the book should appeal to all readers with a serious interest in philosophy and psychology.
Author | : Marthinus Versfeld |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1315532514 |
Download An Essay on the Metaphysics of Descartes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 1940, this book provides a thorough discussion of René Descartes philosophy of metaphysics, examining the three major points of the mind and body, freedom of the will and religion and science. Specific chapters are devoted to the Cartesian theory and the Meditations, in particular the Sixth.