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Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy
Jorge Secada
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Description for Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy
Paperback. A novel and philosophically illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysics and its immediate historical context. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
510g
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521616140
SKU
V9780521616140
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Reviews for Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy
'Secada's book is rich and interesting, and can be read with much profit.' The British Journal for the History of Philosophy Secada skillfully examines Cartesian metaphysics in the context of the dominant Scholastic views regarding essentialism, theology, and sense experience...it would be a useful source for scholars... Seventeeth-Century News