Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780521452915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 346 str.

Jorge Secada

Opis

This is the first book-length study of Decartes' metaphysics to place it in its immediate historical context, the Late Scholastic philosophy of thinkers such as Suarez 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 skepticism, the theory of substance, and the dualism of mind and matter. His study offers a picture of Descartes' metaphysics that is both novel and philosophically illuminating.

Recenzje

'Secada's book is rich and interesting, and can be read with much profit.' The British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Spis treści

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.