Descartes and the Last Scholastics

Roger Ariew

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Descartes and the Last Scholastics

Roger Ariew

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733246

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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.

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Ariew Roger :

Roger Ariew is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Descartes among the Scholastics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
PART I. Context
2. Descartes and the Scotists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Ideas, in and before Descartes with Marjorie Grene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. The Cartesian Destiny of Form and Matter with Marjorie Grene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. Scholastics and the New Astronomy on the Substance of the Heavens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
PART II. Debate and Reception
6. Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: Three Kinds of Corpuscularians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. Descartes and the Jesuits of La Fleche: The Eucharist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
8. Condemnations of Cartesianism: The Extension and Unity of the Universe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
9. Cartesians, Gassendists, and Censorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
10. Scholastic Critics of Descartes: The Cogito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Appendix: Gilson’s Index Indexed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
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- Main content: 256
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- Other: 2 tables, 4 halftones

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Published: June 7, 2019
ISBN: 9781501733246