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Rationalism, Platonism and God
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Hardcover. This volume comprises three main papers on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It provides a significant contribution to the exploration of the common ground of the great early-modern Rationalist theories, and an examination of the ways in which the mainstream Platonic tradition permeates these theories. Editor(s): Ayers, Michael (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy). Series: Proceedings of the British Academy. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
Rationalism, Platonism and God comprises three main papers on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It provides a significant contribution to the exploration of the common ground of the great early-modern Rationalist theories, and an examination of the ways in which the mainstream Platonic tradition permeates these theories. John Cottingham identifies characteristically Platonic themes in Descartes's cosmology and metaphysics, finding them associated with two distinct, even opposed attitudes to nature and the human condition, one ancient and 'contemplative', the other modern and 'controlling'. He finds the same tension in Descartes's moral theory, and believes that it remains ... Read more
Rationalism, Platonism and God comprises three main papers on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It provides a significant contribution to the exploration of the common ground of the great early-modern Rationalist theories, and an examination of the ways in which the mainstream Platonic tradition permeates these theories. John Cottingham identifies characteristically Platonic themes in Descartes's cosmology and metaphysics, finding them associated with two distinct, even opposed attitudes to nature and the human condition, one ancient and 'contemplative', the other modern and 'controlling'. He finds the same tension in Descartes's moral theory, and believes that it remains ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Series
Proceedings of the British Academy
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780197264201
SKU
V9780197264201
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