06568nam 2200625Ia 450 991045574090332120200520144314.01-281-98093-597866119809310-19-151954-50-585-12859-6(CKB)111004366534576(StDuBDS)AH24079624(SSID)ssj0000137006(PQKBManifestationID)11158699(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000137006(PQKBWorkID)10087843(PQKB)10437819(MiAaPQ)EBC3052887(MiAaPQ)EBC4701662(Au-PeEL)EBL3052887(CaPaEBR)ebr10274577(OCoLC)43476505(Au-PeEL)EBL4701662(CaONFJC)MIL198093(OCoLC)1024260851(EXLCZ)9911100436653457619940721d1995 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrDescartes[electronic resource] an intellectual biography /Stephen GaukrogerOxford Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press19951 online resource (520p. ) illOriginally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.0-19-823994-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Chronological Table -- Introduction -- 1. 'A Learned and Eloquent Piety' -- Childhood, 1596-1606 -- The Christianization of Europe -- The Civilizing Process -- The Formation of a Gentilhomme -- The Demise of the Municipal Collège -- 2. An Education in Propriety, 1606-1618 -- La Flèche -- Christianity and the Classical Tradition -- Res Literaria, 1606-1611 -- The Philosophical Curriculum -- Dialectic, 1611-1612 -- Natural Philosophy and Mathematics, 1612-1613 -- Metaphysics and Ethics, 1613-1614 -- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: A Choice of Career, 1614-1618 -- 3. The Apprenticeship with Beeckman, 1618-1619 -- The Meeting with Beeckman -- Beeckman's Micro-Corpuscularianism -- Compendium Musicae -- Falling bodies -- Hydrostatics -- Proportional Compasses and the Idea of a Mathesis Universalis -- 4. The Search for Method, 1619-1625 -- Mirabilis scientiae fundamenta, November 1619 -- The Early Regulae, 1619/1620 -- Intuitus and the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Ideas -- The Doctrine of Analysis -- Fundamentum inventi mirabilis -- Intermezzo, 1621-1625 -- 5. The Paris Years, 1625-1628 -- Libertine Paris -- The Discovery of the Law of Refraction -- Mersenne, Mechanism, and the Problem of Naturalism -- The Return to the Regulae, 1626 -- The Nature of Cognition -- The Representation of Algebra -- The Final Year in Paris -- 6. A New Beginning, 1629-1630 -- The Retreat from Society -- Grinding the Anaclastic -- The Formulation of a Metaphysics -- The Pappus Problem and the Classification of Curves -- Parhelia and the Origins of Le Monde -- The Dispute with Beeckman -- 7. A New System of the World, 1630-1633 -- The Structure of Le Monde -- A Corpuscular Theory of Matter -- The Laws of Nature -- The Construction of a New World -- The Nature of Light -- A Mechanistic Physiology -- Automata and Perceptual Cognition.The Condemnation of Galileo and the Abandonment of Le Monde -- 8. The Years of Consolidation, 1634-1640 -- Amsterdam, 1634-1635 -- An Exercise in Autobiography, 1635-1636 -- Scepticism and the Foundations of a New Metaphysics -- Publication and Critical Response -- An Indian Summer, 1637-1639 -- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia -- Public Brawl and Personal Grief, 1639-1640 -- 9. The Defence of Natural Philosophy, 1640-1644 -- Religious Controversy -- Recherche de la verité versus Principia Philosopbiae -- A Textbook of Natural Philosophy -- The Task of Legitimation -- The Legacy of the Principia -- 10. Melancholia and the Passions, 1643-1650 -- 'A Doctor of the Soul' -- Mind in Body -- A General Theory of the Passions -- In Search of Peace, 1646-1649 -- The Move to Sweden -- Death and Dismemberment -- Notes -- Biographical Sketches -- Select Bibliography -- Index.The results of Descartes' work in mathematics and science are still of benefit to science today. This book shows how he developed his ideas and how his work informed the later studies in philosophy for which he is renowned.Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. Stephen Gaukroger, a leading authority on Descartes, traces his intellectual development from childhood, showing the connections between his intellectual and personal life and placing these in the cultural context of seventeenth century Europe. Descartes' early work in mathematics and science produced ground breaking theories, methods, and tools still in use today. This book gives the first full account of how this work informed and influenced the later philosophical studies for which, above all, Descartes is renowned. Not only were philosophy and science intertwined in Descartes' life; so were philosophy and religion. The Church of Rome found Galileo guilty of heresy in 1633; two decades earlier, Copernicus' theories about the universe had been denounced as blasphemous. To avoid such accusations, Descartes clothed his views about the relation between God and humanity, and about the nature of the universe, in a philosophical garb acceptable to the Church. His most famous project was the exploration of the foundations of human knowledge, starting from the proof of one's own existence offered in the formula Cogito ergo sum, `I am thinking therefore I exist'. Stephen Gaukroger argues that this was not intended as an exercise in philosophical scepticism, but rather to provide Descartes' scientific theories, influenced as they were by Copernicus and Galileo, with metaphysical legitimation. This book offers for the first time a full understanding of how Descartes developed his revolutionary ideas. It will be welcomed by all readers interested in the origins of modern thought.PhilosophersFranceBiographyElectronic books.Philosophers194Gaukroger Stephen507374MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455740903321Descartes780453UNINA