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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... existence of moral evil . Not once is the term moral evil ( malum culpae ) used in the Meditations ; what comes closest is the word sin ( peccatum ) . This is not an insurmountable obstacle to my thesis . According to Descartes , both ...
... existence of moral evil . Not once is the term moral evil ( malum culpae ) used in the Meditations ; what comes closest is the word sin ( peccatum ) . This is not an insurmountable obstacle to my thesis . According to Descartes , both ...
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... existence of the world is uncertain . Thus one cannot prove the existence of God starting with the world . What is left is the ontological proof for God's existence : we know that God exists because we have an idea of Him , which He him ...
... existence of the world is uncertain . Thus one cannot prove the existence of God starting with the world . What is left is the ontological proof for God's existence : we know that God exists because we have an idea of Him , which He him ...
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... existence is non - accidental ; Geuroult's Descartes , who builds his system along the lines of a strictly mathematical order ; Alquie's Descartes , the creator of modern anthro- pocentric metaphysics ; Marion's Descartes , the ...
... existence is non - accidental ; Geuroult's Descartes , who builds his system along the lines of a strictly mathematical order ; Alquie's Descartes , the creator of modern anthro- pocentric metaphysics ; Marion's Descartes , the ...
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... 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 his considerations in the Fourth Meditation , where ...
... 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 his considerations in the Fourth Meditation , where ...
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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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