Descartes: A Biography

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Cambridge University Press, 2006. gada 6. marts - 507 lappuses
Although René Descartes' (1596-1650) is best remembered today for writing "I think, therefore, I am," his unique contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences, thereby earning the unrelenting hostility of both Catholic and Calvinist theologians, who relied on the scholastic philosophy that Descartes hoped to replace. His contemporaries claimed that his proofs of God's existence, in the Meditations, were so unsuccessful that he must have been a cryptic atheist, and that his discussion of skepticism served merely to fan the flames of libertinism. Although Descartes died in Stockholm in obscurity, he soon became one of the most famous philosophers of the seventeenth century, a status that he continues to enjoy today. This English-language biography addresses the complete range of Descartes' interests in theology, philosophy, and the sciences, and traces his intellectual development throughout his entire career. Desmond M. Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland, where he previously served as Dean of Arts and Vice-President. He is author of a number of books on Descartes and the seventeenth century, including Descartes' Philosophy of Science (1982), Occult Powers & Hypotheses (1989) and Descartes' Theory of Mind (1993). He has translated two selections of Descartes' writings and has also translated La Forge's Treatise on the Human Mind (1997) and Poulain de la Barre's The Equality of the Sexes.
 

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A Lawyers Education
6
In Search of a Career 16161622
37
Magic Mathematics and Mechanics Paris 16221628
67
A Fabulous World 16291633
97
The Scientific Essays and the Discourse on Method 16331637
126
Retreat and Defence 16371639
156
Metaphysics in a Hornets Nest 16391642
184
The French Liars Monkey and the Utrecht Controversy
218
The Quarrel and Final Rift with Regius
307
Once More into Battle The Leiden Theologians 1647
337
Thoughts of Retirement
366
Death in Sweden
394
Descartes Principal Works
419
Places Where Descartes Lived
421
Notes
425
Bibliography
489

Descartes and Princess Elizabeth
248
The Principles of Philosophy 1644
276

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Desmond Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork. He received a DLitt from the National University of Ireland, was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and has been elected to the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of a number of books on Descartes and the seventeenth century, most recently Descartes' Theory of Mind (2005).

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