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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... reasons ... one , to provide an idea of his greatness , the other to depict invisible things in the visible . M. Descartes has destroyed the one as well as the other , " The sun is a lovely piece of work , " one says to him . " Not at ...
... reasons ... one , to provide an idea of his greatness , the other to depict invisible things in the visible . M. Descartes has destroyed the one as well as the other , " The sun is a lovely piece of work , " one says to him . " Not at ...
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... reason as rather to place reason at the service of faith than in opposition to it , we shall see how they exercise these rights to support and harmonize what the light of nature and the light of revelation teach us of God and man in ...
... reason as rather to place reason at the service of faith than in opposition to it , we shall see how they exercise these rights to support and harmonize what the light of nature and the light of revelation teach us of God and man in ...
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... reason — set man free from the au- thority of religion . The link with transcendence has been broken . Again , in the process of secularization the role of Descartes ' philosophy which in one way or another was appropriated by the ...
... reason — set man free from the au- thority of religion . The link with transcendence has been broken . Again , in the process of secularization the role of Descartes ' philosophy which in one way or another was appropriated by the ...
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... reason ; Popkin's and Curley's Descartes , fighting against scepticism ; Gouhier's Descartes , for whom the problem ... reasons , " Descartes never freed him- self completely from the tradition he showed so little concern for . I agree ...
... reason ; Popkin's and Curley's Descartes , fighting against scepticism ; Gouhier's Descartes , for whom the problem ... reasons , " Descartes never freed him- self completely from the tradition he showed so little concern for . I agree ...
Inhalt
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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