Descartes among the Scholastics
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Descartes among the Scholastics
（History of science and medicine library, v. 20 . Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions / editor M. Feingold ; v. 1）
Brill, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-349) and index
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Description
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
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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