Descartes And His Contemporaries

Author : Robert Ariew,Roger Ariew,Marjorie Grene
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226026302

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Descartes and His Contemporaries by Robert Ariew,Roger Ariew,Marjorie Grene Pdf

Before publishing his landmark Meditations in 1641, Rene Descartes sent his manuscript to many leading thinkers to solicit their objections to his arguments. He included these objections, along with his own detailed replies, as part of the first edition. This unusual strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms in advance and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints—critical in an age when radical ideas could result in condemnation by church and state, or even death. Descartes and his Contemporaries recreates the tumultuous intellectual community of seventeenth-century Europe and provides a detailed, modern analysis of the Meditations in its historical context. The book's chapters examine the arguments and positions of each of the objectors—Hobbes, Gassendi, Arnauld, Morin, Caterus, Bourdin, and others whose views were compiled by Mersenne. They illuminate Descartes' relationships to the scholastics and particularly the Jesuits, to Mersenne's circle with its debates about the natural sciences, to the Epicurean movements of his day, and to the Augustinian tradition. 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 his contemporaries.

Author : Roger Ariew,Robert Ariew,Marjorie Grene
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226026299

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Descartes and His Contemporaries by Roger Ariew,Robert Ariew,Marjorie Grene Pdf

Before publishing his landmark Meditations in 1641, Rene Descartes sent his manuscript to many leading thinkers to solicit their objections to his arguments. He included these objections, along with his own detailed replies, as part of the first edition. This unusual strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms in advance and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints—critical in an age when radical ideas could result in condemnation by church and state, or even death. Descartes and his Contemporaries recreates the tumultuous intellectual community of seventeenth-century Europe and provides a detailed, modern analysis of the Meditations in its historical context. The book's chapters examine the arguments and positions of each of the objectors—Hobbes, Gassendi, Arnauld, Morin, Caterus, Bourdin, and others whose views were compiled by Mersenne. They illuminate Descartes' relationships to the scholastics and particularly the Jesuits, to Mersenne's circle with its debates about the natural sciences, to the Epicurean movements of his day, and to the Augustinian tradition. 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 his contemporaries.

Author : Daniel Garber,John Hospers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:23133734

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Descartes and His Contemporaries by Daniel Garber,John Hospers Pdf

Author : Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521823013

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Descartes: A Biography by Desmond M. Clarke Pdf

René Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and thereby earned the unrelenting hostility of both Catholic and Calvinist theologians, who relied on the scholastic philosophy that Descartes hoped to replace. His contemporaries claimed that his proofs of God's existence in the Meditations were so unsuccessful that he must have been a cryptic atheist and that his discussion of skepticism served merely to fan the flames of libertinism. This is the first biography in English that addresses the full range of Descartes' interest in theology, philosophy and the sciences and that traces his intellectual development through his entire career.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425009205

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A Discourse on Method by René Descartes Pdf

Descartes' Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous "cogito ergo sum"). Next he deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature. Written in everyday language and meant to be read by common people of the day, it swept away all previous philosophical traditions. This new translation is an ideal introduction to Descartes for the general reader. It is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay from Renaissance scholar Ian Maclean that is designed to provide in-depth historical and philosophical context. The essay draws on Descartes' correspondence to examine what brought him to write his great work, and the impact it had on his contemporaries. A detailed section of notes explain Descartes' philosophical terminology and ideas, as well as historical references and allusions. Any reader can feel comfortable diving in to this classic work of Renaissance philosophical thought.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840569

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Meditations, Objections, and Replies by René Descartes Pdf

This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.

Author : Roger Ariew
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191036040

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Descartes and the First Cartesians by Roger Ariew Pdf

Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we should not approach René Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his philosophical enterprise. Roger Ariew argues that an important aspect of this engagement concerns the endeavor to establish Cartesian philosophy in the Schools, that is, to replace Aristotle as the authority there. Descartes wrote the Principles of Philosophy as something of a rival to Scholastic textbooks, initially conceiving the project as a comparison of his philosophy and that of the Scholastics. Still, what Descartes produced was inadequate for the task. The topics of Scholastic textbooks ranged more broadly than those of Descartes; they usually had quadripartite arrangements mirroring the structure of the collegiate curriculum, divided as they typically were into logic, ethics, physics, and metaphysics. But Descartes produced at best only what could be called a general metaphysics and a partial physics. These deficiencies in the Cartesian program and in its aspiration to replace Scholastic philosophy in the schools caused the Cartesians to rush in to fill the voids. The attempt to publish a Cartesian textbook that would mirror what was taught in the schools began in the 1650s with Jacques Du Roure and culminated in the 1690s with Pierre-Sylvain Régis and Antoine Le Grand. Ariew's original account thus considers the reception of Descartes' work, and establishes the significance of his philosophical enterprise in relation to the textbooks of the first Cartesians and in contrast with late Scholastic textbooks.

Author : Stephen Menn,Stephen Philip Menn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521012848

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Descartes and Augustine by Stephen Menn,Stephen Philip Menn Pdf

This book is a systematic study of Descartes' relation to Augustine. It offers a complete reevaluation of Descartes' thought and as such will be of major importance to all historians of medieval, neo-Platonic, or early modern philosophy. Stephen Menn demonstrates that Descartes uses Augustine's central ideas as a point of departure for a critique of medieval Aristotelian physics, which he replaces with a new, mechanistic anti-Aristotelian physics. Special features of the book include a reading of the Meditations, a comprehensive historical and philosophical introduction to Augustine's thought, a detailed account of Plotinus, and a contextualization of Descartes' mature philosophical project which explores both the framework within which it evolved and the early writings, to show how the collapse of the early project drove Descartes to the writings of Augustine.

Author : Marjorie Grene,Marjorie Glicksman Grene
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872204049

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Descartes by Marjorie Grene,Marjorie Glicksman Grene Pdf

This essential work is made up of eight interrelated essays grouped to elucidate two major themes -- Descartes's role in the dilemma of modern philosophy, and the relation of his thought to that of his contemporaries.

Author : Gordon McOuat,Neil Robertson,Tom Vinci
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443807869

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Descartes and the Modern by Gordon McOuat,Neil Robertson,Tom Vinci Pdf

Descartes is not simply our iconic modern philosopher, mathematician or scientist. He stands as the cultural symbol for modernity itself. As such, Descartes is widely read in and out of universities as the definitive moment in the birth of what we take to be the Modern. Yet, recent scholarship has presented numerous challenges to the Cartesian image. Some question the legitimacy of calling Descartes a founder of modernity. Others have questioned the very legitimacy of Modernity itself, using Descartes as a way into that critique This collection of original papers by leading philosophers and historians of early modern thought opens up these questions, exploring them in new and markedly interdisciplinary ways, offering fresh insights into the important relationship between Descartes and the Modern, and the very meaning and status of Modernity itself. This collection assembles together for the first time leading representatives from what might be called the “naturalist” or Anglo-American school with those of the continental “phenomenological” school in a dialogue concerning Descartes’ place. The papers explore crucial questions and recent disputes regarding Descartes’ relationship to his predecessors, to his contemporaries and to modern thought, to the philosophy of mind, to questions of metaphysics and natural philosophy. Descartes and the Modern helps bridge solitudes drawn between these traditional approaches to Descartes.

Author : Paul David Hoffman,David Owen,Gideon Yaffe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy by Paul David Hoffman,David Owen,Gideon Yaffe Pdf

Author : Roger Ariew
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501733246

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Descartes and the Last Scholastics by Roger Ariew Pdf

The ongoing renaissance in Descartes studies has been characterized by an attempt to understand the philosopher's texts against his own intellectual background. Roger Ariew here argues that Cartesian philosophy should be regarded as it was in Descartes's own day—as a reaction against, as well as an indebtedness to, scholastic philosophy. His book illuminates Cartesian philosophy by analyzing debates between Descartes and contemporary schoolmen and surveying controversies arising in its first reception. 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 metaphysics (being and ideas) and transcendentals (for example, unity, quantity, principle of individuation, truth and falsity). Part I exhibits the differences and similarities among the doctrines of Descartes and those of Jesuits and other scholastics in seventeenth-century France. The contrasts Descartes drew between his philosophy and that of others are the subject of Part II, which also examines some arguments in which he was involved and details the continued controversy caused by Cartesianism in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9786558943273

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DESCARTES ESSENTIAL by René Descartes Pdf

Often called " The founder of modern philosophy" and the "father of modern mathematics," René Descartes is considered one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of Western thought, having inspired contemporaries and several generations of later philosophers. Experts affirm that, starting from Descartes, the rationalism of the Modern Age was inaugurated. In this valuable eBook, the reader will be able to learn about Descartes' thought through two of his most important works: " Discourse on the Method" and " Meditations on First Philosophy."

Author : Davide Cellamare,Mattia Mantovani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004524897

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Descartes in the Classroom by Davide Cellamare,Mattia Mantovani Pdf

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age, across the borders of countries, and confessions, both within and without the university setting – public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter.

Author : Raphaële Garrod,Alexander Marr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004437623

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Descartes and the Ingenium by Raphaële Garrod,Alexander Marr Pdf

A historically-informed account of the lasting importance of embodied thought in the intellectual trajectory of René Descartes, still remembered today as the founding father of dualism.