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Radical Cartesianism Tad M. Schmaltz (Duke University, North Carolina)

Radical Cartesianism By Tad M. Schmaltz (Duke University, North Carolina)

Radical Cartesianism by Tad M. Schmaltz (Duke University, North Carolina)


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This is a book-length study of two of Descartes's most innovative successors, Desgabets and Regis, and of their highly original contributions to Cartesianism. The book establishes the important though neglected role played by Desgabets and Regis in the theologically and politically charged reception of Descartes in early modern France.

Radical Cartesianism Summary

Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes by Tad M. Schmaltz (Duke University, North Carolina)

This is a book-length study of two of Descartes's most innovative successors, Robert Desgabets and Pierre-Sylvain Regis, and of their highly original contributions to Cartesianism. The focus of the book is an analysis of radical doctrines in the work of these thinkers that derive from arguments in Descartes: on the creation of eternal truths, on the intentionality of ideas, and on the soul-body union. As well as relating their work to that of fellow Cartesians such as Malebranche and Arnauld, the book also establishes the important though neglected role played by Desgabets and Regis in the theologically and politically charged reception of Descartes in early modern France. This is a major contribution to the history of Cartesianism that will be of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy and historians of ideas.

Radical Cartesianism Reviews

"Schmaltz's book contains philosophically sophisticated treatments of a host of philosophical problems from the period which we should take seriously ... the book is well worth reading." Philosophy in Review

Table of Contents

Preface; A note on citation and translation; List of abbreviations; Introduction: radical Cartesianism in context; Part I. Robert Desgabets: 1. Desgabets's Considerations, Arnauld and Cartesianism; Part II. Three Radical Doctrines: 2. The creation doctrine: indefectible material substance and God; 3. The intentionality doctrine: ideas and extra-mental objects; 4. The union doctrine: temporal human thought and motion; Part III. Pierre-Sylvain Regis: 5. Huet's Censura, Malebranche and Platonism; Conclusion: 'a forgotten branch of Cartesianism'; Works cited; Index.

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NPB9780521811347
9780521811347
0521811341
Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes by Tad M. Schmaltz (Duke University, North Carolina)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2002-08-22
304
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