CiNii Books - Descartes and his contemporaries : meditations, objections, and replies

Before publishing "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 strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints. This text recreates the intellectual community of 17th-century Europe and provides a 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's 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.

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List of Abbreviations Prologue Marjorie Grene, Roger Ariew. 1: The Place of the Objections in the Development of Cartesian Metaphysics Jean-Luc Marion 2: The First Objections Theo Verbeek 3: Caterus' Objections to God Jean-Robert Armogathe 4: Mersenne's Suggestion: Cartesian Meditation and the Mathematical Model of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century Peter Dear 5: J.-B. Morin and the Second Objections Daniel Garber 6: Hobbes's Objections and Hobbes's System Tom Sorell 7: Hobbes versus Descartes Edwin Curley 8: Arnauld: From Ockhamism to Cartesianism Vincent Carraud 9: Occasionalism and the Question of Arnauld's Cartesianism Steven Nadler 10: Divine Will and Mathematical Truth: Gassendi and Descartes on the Status of the Eternal Truths Margaret J. Osler 11: Pandora
or, Essence and Reference: Gassendi's Nominalist Objection and Descartes' Realist Reply Thomas M. Lennon 12: The Greatest Stumbling Block: Descartes' Denial of Real Qualities Stephen Menn 13: Pierre Bourdin and the Seventh Objections Roger Ariew Epilogue Marjorie Grene Bibliography Contributors Index

Volume: : pbk ISBN 9780226026305

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Before publishing "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 strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints. This text recreates the intellectual community of 17th-century Europe and provides a 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's 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.

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