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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... and development of Descartes ' metaphysics , are taken from my forthcoming Index Augustino - Cartesien . Textes et Commentaire ( Paris : VRIN ) . 11 Introduction Having so settled the rights of faith and of Acknowledgements.
... and development of Descartes ' metaphysics , are taken from my forthcoming Index Augustino - Cartesien . Textes et Commentaire ( Paris : VRIN ) . 11 Introduction Having so settled the rights of faith and of Acknowledgements.
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... metaphysics ; the apologetics - minded Descartes of Espinas ; Frankfurt's Descartes , attempting to validate reason ; Popkin's and Curley's Descartes , fighting against scepticism ; Gouhier's Descartes , for whom the problem of the ...
... metaphysics ; the apologetics - minded Descartes of Espinas ; Frankfurt's Descartes , attempting to validate reason ; Popkin's and Curley's Descartes , fighting against scepticism ; Gouhier's Descartes , for whom the problem of the ...
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... metaphysical refine- ment was the metaphysics of St. Thomas , considered Descartes to be a metaphysical amateur . " I don't know if I will create scandal by saying that , apart from Spinoza , there was something amateurish in even the ...
... metaphysical refine- ment was the metaphysics of St. Thomas , considered Descartes to be a metaphysical amateur . " I don't know if I will create scandal by saying that , apart from Spinoza , there was something amateurish in even the ...
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... metaphysics , the doc- trine of the eternal truths ( i.e. , the conception of God's freedom ) ; the conception of human freedom ; the theory of error and the explanation of the will's propensity towards error ( evil ) ; and the account ...
... metaphysics , the doc- trine of the eternal truths ( i.e. , the conception of God's freedom ) ; the conception of human freedom ; the theory of error and the explanation of the will's propensity towards error ( evil ) ; and the account ...
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... metaphysics is dead today . Unlike the philosophy of St. Thomas , which gave rise to Neo - Thomism , 18 Augustinism does not have serious adherents , and indeed has not had since its last fortress , 1'Abbe de Port - Royal , was torn ...
... metaphysics is dead today . Unlike the philosophy of St. Thomas , which gave rise to Neo - Thomism , 18 Augustinism does not have serious adherents , and indeed has not had since its last fortress , 1'Abbe de Port - Royal , was torn ...
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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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