Overview

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

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Author:   Roger Ariew
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   20/1
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.765kg
ISBN:  

9789004207240

ISBN 10:   9004207244
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   22 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Fleche: 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

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The book is clearly and engagingly written and a pleasure to read. One cannot but admire the wonderful breadth of scholarship on display. This book is a rich resource for anyone interested in learning about Descartes's historical context. Marleen Rozemond in: HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 186-190 Its generous bibliography, its faithful historical reconstructions recommend the book as a guide, tempting us to begin and continue the exploration of Descartes within his scholastic context. Mihai-Dragos Vadana, Society and Politics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (12)/November 2012

Author Information

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.

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