The rationalists /
"OPUS". Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988.
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| Series: | History of Western philosophy ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Publisher description Klappentext |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Background
- Rationalists and empiricists
- Reason, system, and necessity
- René Descartes
- Benedictus Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 2. Method
- Descartes's fresh start
- Mathesis universalis
- Metaphysical foundations
- Analysis and synthesis
- Problems with the Cartesian method
- Spinoza and the 'geometrical order'
- Definitions, essences, and apriorism
- The denial of contingency, and Spinoza's grades of cognition
- Leibniz and the 'art of combination'
- Necessity, contingency, and Leibniz's 'rationalism'
- Innate ideas.
- 3. The classical background
- Descartes on substance: God, mind, and matter
- The asymmetry of Descartes's dualism
- Spinoza and independent substance
- 'God or nature'
- The existence of uncreated substance in Descartes and Spinoza
- Leibniz 's critique of the ontological argument
- Leibniz and individual substance
- The monads activity and self-containedness
- Causality connection and the role of God
- 4. Matter and Mind
- Descartes's immaterialist theory of the mind
- The problem of interaction
- The Spinozan response
- Mind and body in Spinoza
- Leibniz critique of Cartesian matter
- Leibniz's theory of the mind
- Souls, consciousness, and transparency
- 5. Freedom and Morality
- Divine goodness and Cartesian freedom
- Leibniz on liberty
- Spinozan freedom: endeavour and rationality
- Human nature and the good life in Descartes and Spinoza
- Reason, faith, and the human lot.