Descartes Among the Scholastics

Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 1
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20724-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20/1, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: History of Science and Medicine Library / Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in intellectual history, the history of science, the history of philosophy, early modern philosophy and science, scholasticism, Descartes, and Cartesians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ariew, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introductioni

1. Descartes and the Last Scholastics: Objections and Replies
2. Descartes and the Scotists
3. Ideas, before and after Descartes
4. The Cartesian Destiny of Form and Matter
5. Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: Three Kinds of Corpuscularians
6. Scholastics and the New Astronomy on the Substance of the Heavens
7. Descartes and the Jesuits of La Flèche: the Eucharist
8. Condemnations of Cartesianism: the Extension and Unity of the Universe
9. Cartesians, Gassendists, and Censorship
10. The Cogito in the Seventeenth Century

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ariew, Roger
Roger Ariew, Ph.D. (1976) in Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He has published extensively on the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the early modern period.