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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy |
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Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy.
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- chapter References -- part Part I Structures -- chapter 1 Intellectual virtues -- chapter Rectitude, reliability and responsibility -- part Part II Excess -- chapter 2 Reason and virtue in the Passions -- chapter 3 The vice of credulity -- chapter 4 The control of credulity -- chapter 5 Reason, assent and eternal truth -- part Part III Defect -- chapter 6 The modes of scepticism -- chapter 7 The form of scepticism -- part Part IV The mean -- chapter 8 Tota methodus -- chapter The third precept -- order -- chapter 9 Rectitude and science -- chapter The shape of completed science -- chapter 10 What rectitude permits -- chapter Admonitions -- chapter 11 What rectitude forbids -- chapter What we have grounds for thinking is false -- chapter Afterword |
| Summary |
"Descartes is often regarded as the founder of modern philosophy and is credited with placing the question of what we know and how we know it at centre stage. Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue seeks to reinsert his work and thought in its contemporary ethical and theological context." "Richard Davies mobilises the recently emerging notion of intellectual virtue to understand Descartes' philosophical enterprise as a whole. He examines the textual dynamics of Descartes' most famous writings in relation to background debates about human endeavour from Plato down to Descartes' own contemporaries. Bringing these materials together in an innovative format, Davies argues for a new approach to Descartes' ideas of scepticism and the sciences. The book also offers fresh interpretations of key passages from the Meditations." "Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue offers an original reassessment of some of the most important bodies of work in western philosophy."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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| SUBJECT |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134530564 |
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1134530560 |
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9781134530571 |
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1134530579 |
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9780203420638 |
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0203420632 |
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