Jorge Secada

Cartesian Metaphysics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A novel and philosophically illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysics and its immediate historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 715g
• ISBN-13: 9780521452915
• ISBN-10: 0521452910
• Artikelnr.: 22374726

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Unity of Cartesian Metaphysics: 1. Descartes's essentialist metaphysics
2. Scepticism, Scholasticism and the origins of Descartes's philosophy
3. Cartesian real essences
Part II. Ideas and the Road from Essence to Existence: 4. Ideas and the world in mind
5. My wax, my intellect and I
6. Essentialism and the existence of God
Part III. Cartesian Substances: 7. The substantial tension
8. The essence and the existence of Cartesian substances
9. The real distinction or the body and the mind.