
Cartesian Metaphysics
The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy
Jorge Secada(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 2. December 2004
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Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-0-521-61614-0 (ISBN)
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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 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 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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'Secada's book is rich and interesting, and can be read with much profit.' The British Journal for the History of PhilosophyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
565 gr
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978-0-521-61614-0 (9780521616140)
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Content
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.