Cartesian Theodicy: Descartes' Quest for CertitudeSpringer Science & Business Media, 31.01.2000 - 181 Seiten Almost all interpreters of Cartesian philosophy have hitherto focused on the epistemological aspect of Descartes' thought. In his Cartesian Theodicy, Janowski demonstrates that Descartes' epistemological problems are merely rearticulations of theological questions. For example, Descartes' attempt to define the role of God in man's cognitive fallibility is a reiteration of an old argument that points out the incongruity between the existence of God and evil, and his pivotal question `whence error?' is shown here to be a rephrasing of the question `whence evil?' The answer Descartes gives in the Meditations is actually a reformulation of the answer found in St. Augustine's De Libero Arbitrio and the Confessions. The influence of St. Augustine on Descartes can also be detected in the doctrine of eternal truths which, within the context of the 17th-century debates over the question of the nature of divine freedom, caused Descartes to ally himself with the Augustinian Oratorians against the Jesuits. Both in his Cartesian Theodicy as well as his Index Augustino-Cartesian, Textes et Commentaire Janowski shows that the entire Cartesian metaphysics can - and should - be read within the context of Augustinian thought. |
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... arguments clearer than they were . I also thank Sue Lonoff de Cuevas and Kimberly Katona for reading portions of this text . While writing this book , I received generous support from several institutions : the Earhart Foundation , the ...
... arguments clearer than they were . I also thank Sue Lonoff de Cuevas and Kimberly Katona for reading portions of this text . While writing this book , I received generous support from several institutions : the Earhart Foundation , the ...
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... argument in the Meditations . Surprisingly enough , with the exception of Sergio Landucci's study La Teodicea Nell'Eta Cartesiana in which he discusses theodicies of several seven- teenth - century thinkers , the Meditations have never ...
... argument in the Meditations . Surprisingly enough , with the exception of Sergio Landucci's study La Teodicea Nell'Eta Cartesiana in which he discusses theodicies of several seven- teenth - century thinkers , the Meditations have never ...
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... argument for the existence of God , because change implies an ultimate source that is unchanging — otherwise there would be an infinite regress God must exist . In the Cartesian world there is no " cosmological ladder " leading from the ...
... argument for the existence of God , because change implies an ultimate source that is unchanging — otherwise there would be an infinite regress God must exist . In the Cartesian world there is no " cosmological ladder " leading from the ...
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... argument for theodicy . Unlike many interpreters of Descartes , however , I derive the foundations of Descartes ' philosophy directly from the theology of St. Augustine . Despite his break with the past and his declarations to the ...
... argument for theodicy . Unlike many interpreters of Descartes , however , I derive the foundations of Descartes ' philosophy directly from the theology of St. Augustine . Despite his break with the past and his declarations to the ...
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... argument that there is an incongruity between the existence of an omnipotent and benevolent Creator and man's imperfect nature . The problem of error that Descartes addresses in the First Meditation is , however , only a pre- lude to ...
... argument that there is an incongruity between the existence of an omnipotent and benevolent Creator and man's imperfect nature . The problem of error that Descartes addresses in the First Meditation is , however , only a pre- lude to ...
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The Meditations as Theodicy | 23 |
Can God Deceive Us? | 49 |
Divine Freedom The Doctrine of the Eternal Truths | 79 |
Human Freedom | 113 |
Descartes Reader of St Augustine | 141 |
How Rational is Descartes Rationalism? | 151 |
Bibliography | 163 |
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