Descartes and His Contemporaries Meditations, Objections, and Replies

Name: Descartes and His Contemporaries Meditations, Objections, and Replies
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ISBN: 9780226026305

ISBN-10: 0226026302

ISBN-13: 9780226026305

Edition: 1995

Authors: Roger Ariew, Marjorie Grene

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Before publishing his landmarkMeditationsin 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 unusual strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms in advance and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints—critical in an age when radical ideas could result in condemnation by church and state, or even death.Descartes and his Contemporariesrecreates the tumultuous intellectual community of seventeenth-century Europe and provides a detailed, modern analysis of theMeditationsin its historical context. The…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Abbreviations


Prologue




The Place of the Objections in the Development of Cartesian Metaphysics




The First Objections




Caterus' Objections to God




Mersenne's Suggestion: Cartesian Meditation and the Mathematical Model of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century




J.-B. Morin and the Second Objections




Hobbes's Objections and Hobbes's System




Hobbes versus Descartes




Arnauld: From Ockhamism to Cartesianism




Occasionalism and the Question of Arnauld's Cartesianism




Divine Will and Mathematical Truth: Gassendi and Descartes on the Status of the Eternal Truths




Pandora; or, Essence and Reference: Gassendi's Nominalist Objection and Descartes' Realist Reply




The Greatest Stumbling Block: Descartes' Denial of Real Qualities




Pierre Bourdin and the Seventh Objections



Epilogue Marjorie Grene


Bibliography


Contributors


Index