Descartes among the Scholastics / by Roger Ariew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ariew, Roger.

Contributor:

Ariew, Roger.

Series:

History of science and medicine library ; v. 20.

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 1.

History of science and medicine library ; v. 20

Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholasticism--History--17th century.

Scholasticism.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Descartes among the Scholastics takes the position that philosophical systems cannot be studied adequately apart from their intellectual context: philosophers accept, modify, or reject doctrines whose meaning and significance are given in a particular culture. Thus, the volume treats Cartesian philosophy as a reaction against, as well as an indebtedness to, scholastic philosophy and touches on many topics shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form, causation, infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the substance of the heavens; principles of metaphysics (such as unity, principle of individuation, truth and falsity). One moves from within Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual context in the seventeenth century, to living philosophical debate between Descartes and his contemporaries, to its first reception. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions , 1

Contents:

Preliminary Material / R. Ariew

Introduction / R. Ariew

1. Descartes And The Last Scholastics: Objections And Replies / R. Ariew

2. Descartes And The Scotists / R. Ariew

3. Ideas, Before And After Descartes / R. Ariew

4. The Cartesian Destiny Of Form And Matter And Its Critics / R. Ariew

5. Descartes, Basso, And Toletus: Three Kinds Of Corpuscularians / R. Ariew

6. Scholastics And The New Astronomy On The Substance Of The Heavens / R. Ariew

7. Descartes And The Jesuits Of La Flèche: The Eucharist / R. Ariew

8. Condemnations Of Cartesianism: The Extension And Unity Of The Universe / R. Ariew

9. Cartesians, Gassendists, And Censorship / R. Ariew

10. The Cogito In The Seventeenth Century / R. Ariew

Bibliography / R. Ariew

Index / R. Ariew.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Descartes and the last Scholastics. 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the last Scholastics.

ISBN:

1-283-16196-6

9786613161963

90-04-20728-7

OCLC:

743693677

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004207240.i-358 DOI