Descartes : an intellectual biography / / Stephen Gaukroger

• Autore: Gaukroger Stephen
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xx, 499 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 194 B; 194
• Soggetto topico: Philosophers - France
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: René Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest thinkers of all time. His unique contribution to Western thought covers not only philosophy but also science and mathematics, though his most famous project was the exploration of the foundations of human knowledge, starting from the formula Cogito ergo sum, `I am thinking therefore I exist'.This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English. Stephen Gaukroger provides a rich and authoritative account of Descartes' intellectual and personal development, understood in its historical context, and offers a reassessment of all aspects of his life and work.
• Titolo autorizzato: Descartes
• ISBN: 0191519545; 9780191519543
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807049703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II