Essays on Descartes
This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years. The essays in Part I include his celebrated The Unity of Descartes' Man, in which he argues that Descartes accepts the Aristotelian view that soul and body are related as form to matter and that the human being is a substance; a series of subsequent essays elaborating on this interpretation and defending it against objections; and an essay on Descartes' theory of distinction. In the essays in Part II he argues that Descartes retains the Aristotelian theory of causation according to which an agent's action is the same as the passio…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-971754-5
- EAN: 9780199717545
- Produktnummer: 13936877
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'240 KB
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Paul Hoffman is Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell (Broadview Press 2008)
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