Descartes and Augustine
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- Author: Stephen Menn, McGill University, Montréal
- Date Published: May 2002
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521012843
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This book is a systematic study of Descartes' relation to Augustine. It offers a complete reevaluation of Descartes' thought and as such will be of major importance to all historians of medieval, neo-Platonic, or early modern philosophy. Stephen Menn demonstrates that Descartes uses Augustine's central ideas as a point of departure for a critique of medieval Aristotelian physics, which he replaces with a new, mechanistic anti-Aristotelian physics. Special features of the book include a reading of the Meditations, a comprehensive historical and philosophical introduction to Augustine's thought, a detailed account of Plotinus, and a contextualization of Descartes' mature philosophical project which explores both the framework within which it evolved and the early writings, to show how the collapse of the early project drove Descartes to the writings of Augustine.
Read more- Major study of roots of Descartes' philosophy and Descartes remains one of the most widely taught philosophers worldwide
- Book also includes important introduction to the philosophy of both Augustine and Plotinus
- Should sell well internationally, not just in the US
Reviews & endorsements
'… the best book in the English language on the Meditations … Historical scholarship does not get any better.' David Glidden, Ancient Philosophy
See more reviews'… a brilliant piece of research in the history of philosophy which will surely be a work to be read and reckoned with by future students of Descartes and Augustine.' The Modern Schoolman
'… a fresh and excitingly bold reading of Descartes … Stephen Menn's wonderful book makes Augustine's Fourth Century much less remote from Descartes's seventeenth century than we had thought it was.' Philosophy in Review
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- Date Published: May 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521012843
- length: 434 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Descartes and the history of philosophy
2. Descartes' project for a new philosophy
Part I. Augustinian Wisdom:
3. Plotinus
4. Augustine
Part II. Descartes' Metaphysics:
5. The design of the Meditations
6. Isolating the soul and God
7. Theodicy and Method
8. From God to bodies
9. Conclusion.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Human Nature
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