Jorge Secada (University of Virginia)

Cartesian Metaphysics

The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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. It offers a picture of Descartes's metaphysics that is both novel and philosophically illuminating.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521616140
• ISBN-10: 052161614X
• Artikelnr.: 22414992

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Unity of Cartesian Metaphysics: 1. Descartes's essentialist metaphysics
2. Scepticism, Scholasticism and the origins of Descartes's philosophy
3. Cartesian real essences
Part II. Ideas and the Road from Essence to Existence: 4. Ideas and the world in mind
5. My wax, my intellect and I
6. Essentialism and the existence of God
Part III. Cartesian Substances: 7. The substantial tension
8. The essence and the existence of Cartesian substances
9. The real distinction or the body and the mind.