Rev. ed. of: Descartes and the last Scholastics. 1999.
The volume touches upon many topics and themes shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form; infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the substance of the heavens; the object or subject of metaphysics; principles of ...
112 I am quoting from Clarke's translation, Rohault's System of Natural Philosophy (Rohault 1739), 29–30. Unlike Le Grand and Régis, who tried to publish complete “systems” of Cartesian philosophy, Rohault limited himself to natural ...
In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement.
In its view of our Cartesian heritage it is of course by no means novel ; the theme of Alfred North Whitehead's Nature ... Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1995 ; M. Grene , Descartes among the Scholastics , Milwaukee : Marquette ...
Texts translated from the French and Latin serve to illustrate the context of the writing of Descartes' Meditations.
One example of the importance of Thomist- Scotist debates for non- scholastic natural philosophy is René Descartes's famous, and slightly misleading, rejection of prime matter as pura potentia as the scholastic position. It is, in fact, ...
Providing a glimpse of the interactions among leading 17th-century intellectuals as they grappled with major philosophical issues, this book sheds light on how Descartes' thought developed and was articulated in opposition to the ideas of ...
In chapter 5 I discuss the relationship between Descartes's dualism and scholastic conceptions of the soul and its union with the body: this relationship is quite complex in interesting ways. Secondly, on various occasions Descartes ...
Moreover, Roger Ariew's Descartes Among the Scholastics (2011) pointed to significant patterns in the circulation of Cartesian ideas, the validity of which should not be limited to the extra-German cases on which he focuses.
Providing a glimpse of the interactions among leading 17th-century intellectuals as they grappled with major philosophical issues, this book sheds light on how Descartes' thought developed and was articulated in opposition to the ideas of ...