Lire Descartes aujourd’hui
| Author | : Maurice F. Wiles |
| Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Asceticism |
| ISBN | : 9789042909229 |
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Descartes's Changing Mind
| Author | : Peter Machamer |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2009-07-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1400830435 |
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Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most significant of these shifts, this book also provides a new picture of the development of Cartesian science, epistemology, and metaphysics. No changes in Descartes's thought are more significant than those that occur between the major works The World (1633) and Principles of Philosophy (1644). Often seen as two versions of the same natural philosophy, these works are in fact profoundly different, containing distinct conceptions of causality and epistemology. Machamer and McGuire trace the implications of these changes and others that follow from them, including Descartes's rejection of the method of abstraction as a means of acquiring knowledge, his insistence on the infinitude of God's power, and his claim that human knowledge is limited to that which enables us to grasp the workings of the world and develop scientific theories.
Descartes's Theory of Action
| Author | : Anne Davenport |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2006-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047409973 |
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This volume reexamines Descartes’s Meditations to argue that his fundamental discovery is not the epistemological subject, but rather the underlying free agent without whom no epistemological subject is possible. Special attention is paid to the historical context of Descartes’s theory of action.
Philosophische Gotteserkenntnis bei Suárez und Descartes
| Author | : Aza Goudriaan |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1999-10-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004247521 |
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This study examines the answers of Suárez and Descartes to basic questions regarding the philosophical knowledge of God. It is placed against the background of the reactions to both by Dutch Reformed theologians and philosophers in the seventeenth Century.
Cartesian Theodicy
| Author | : Z. Janowski |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9401091447 |
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Almost all interpreters of Cartesian philosophy have hitherto focused on the epistemological aspect of Descartes' thought. In his Cartesian Theodicy, Janowski demonstrates that Descartes' epistemological problems are merely rearticulations of theological questions. For example, Descartes' attempt to define the role of God in man's cognitive fallibility is a reiteration of an old argument that points out the incongruity between the existence of God and evil, and his pivotal question `whence error?' is shown here to be a rephrasing of the question `whence evil?' The answer Descartes gives in the Meditations is actually a reformulation of the answer found in St. Augustine's De Libero Arbitrio and the Confessions. The influence of St. Augustine on Descartes can also be detected in the doctrine of eternal truths which, within the context of the 17th-century debates over the question of the nature of divine freedom, caused Descartes to ally himself with the Augustinian Oratorians against the Jesuits. Both in his Cartesian Theodicy as well as his Index Augustino-Cartesian, Textes et Commentaire Janowski shows that the entire Cartesian metaphysics can - and should - be read within the context of Augustinian thought.
Jacobus Revius, a Theological Examination of Cartesian Philosophy
| Author | : Aza Goudriaan |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9789004128378 |
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This volume makes available Latin texts - originally printed in 1647 - in which Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Revius (1586-1658) formulates a thoughtful criticism of Cartesian philosophy.
Johannes Clauberg (1622–1665)
| Author | : T. Verbeek |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2013-06-29 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9401592373 |
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In this book twelve outstanding historians of early modern philosophy undertake a study of the philosophy of Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665). Clauberg was not only among the first followers of Descartes (whose philosophy he taught from 1650 in Herborn and from 1652 until the end of his life in Duisburg) but also assured its survival as an academic philosophy by giving it a more traditional and more didactic expression. A first group of articles deals with Clauberg's early metaphysics as it found its expression in his Ontosophia of 1646 (republished with very considerable changes in 1664), the way it was influenced by Comenius (Leinsle), its relation to Malebranche (Bardout) and Wolff (École) and the way in which it illustrates the difficulties of a Cartesian ontology in general (Carraud). A second group of articles deals with problems of knowledge: knowledge of God (Goudriaan), perceptual knowledge (Spruit) and causality (Pätzold). There are also articles on Clauberg's curious attempt to deal philosophically with the etymology of the German language (Weber), Clauberg as a teacher of Descartes' Principia (Verbeek), Clauberg's conception of corporeal substance (Mercer), and Clauberg's relation to later, more radical developments in Cartesian philosophy, especially in Lodewijk Meyer (Albrecht). The volume is completed by a biographical introduction and a short title bibliography of Clauberg's works, which allows an appreciation of Clauberg's lasting international influence. It is the first study on this scale of one of the most influential philosophers of the seventeenth century.
Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy
| Author | : Ohad Nachtomy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2018-08-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3319945564 |
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This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy. The essays not only consider the ways that key figures viewed the concept. They also detail how these different beliefs about infinity influenced major philosophical systems throughout the era. These domains include mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, science, and theology. Coverage begins with an introduction that outlines the overall importance of infinity to early modern philosophy. It then moves from a general background of infinity (before early modern thought) up through Kant. Readers will learn about the place of infinity in the writings of key early modern thinkers. The contributors profile the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant. Debates over infinity significantly influenced philosophical discussion regarding the human condition and the extent and limits of human knowledge. Questions about the infinity of space, for instance, helped lead to the introduction of a heliocentric solar system as well as the discovery of calculus. This volume offers readers an insightful look into all this and more. It provides a broad perspective that will help advance the present state of knowledge on this important but often overlooked topic.
Francisco Suárez: Metaphysics, Politics And Ethics
| Author | : Mário Santiago de Carvalho |
| Publisher | : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9892618882 |
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O presente volume publica as Atas do Iº Encontro Internacional “Pensar o Barroco em Portugal” (26-28 de Junho de 2017), que se ocupou do pensamento metafísico, ético e político de Francisco Suárez. Contando com a colaboração de alguns dos maiores especialistas internacionais na obra e no pensamento deste famoso professor da Universidade de Coimbra no século XVII, este volume celebra os 400 anos da sua morte e assinala a produtividade do seu legado filosófico-teológico.
By Good and Necessary Consequence
| Author | : Carlos R. Bovell |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2009-06-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1498276717 |
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By Good and Necessary Consequence presents a critical examination of the reasoning behind the "good and necessary consequence" clause in the Westminster Confession of Faith and makes five observations regarding its suitability for contemporary Reformed and evangelical adherents. 1) In the seventeenth century, religious leaders in every quarter were expected to respond to a thoroughgoing, cultural skepticism. 2) In response to the onslaught of cultural and epistemological skepticism, many looked to mimic as far as possible the deductive methods of mathematicians. 3) The use to which biblicist foundationalism was put by the Westminster divines is at variance with the classical invention, subsequent appropriation, and contemporary estimation of axiomatic and deductive methodology. 4) Although such methodological developments in theology might have seemed natural during the seventeenth century, their epistemological advantage is not evident today. 5) When a believer's faith is epistemologically ordered in a biblicist foundationalist way, once the foundation--the axiomatic use of a veracious scripture--is called into question, the entire faith is in serious danger of crashing down. In a nutshell, Bovell argues that it is not wise to structure the Christian faith in this biblicist foundationalist way, and that it is high time alternate approaches be sought.
