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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780076403321

Autore

Secada Jorge

Titolo

Cartesian metaphysics : the late scholastic origins of modern philosophy / / Jorge Secada [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-11221-4

0-511-01312-4

1-280-41674-2

0-511-17410-1

0-511-15367-8

0-511-32802-8

0-511-48730-4

0-511-05283-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Essentialism (Philosophy)

Scholasticism - History

Philosophy, Modern - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Prologue; Part I The unity of Cartesian metaphysics; Part II Ideas and the road from essence to existence; Part III Cartesian substances; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book-length study of Descartes's metaphysics to place it in its immediate historical context, the Late Scholastic philosophy of thinkers such as Suárez against which Descartes reacted. Jorge Secada views Cartesian philosophy as an 'essentialist' reply to the 'existentialism' of the School, and his discussion includes careful analyses and original interpretations of such central Cartesian themes as the role of scepticism, intentionality and the doctrine of the material falsity of ideas, universals and the relation between sense and



understanding, causation and the proofs of the existence of God, the theory of substance, and the dualism of mind and matter. His study offers a picture of Descartes's metaphysics that is both novel and philosophically illuminating.