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| Named Person: | René Descartes; Benedictus de Spinoza; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von; René Descartes; Baruch Spinoza; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Cottingham |
| ISBN: | 0192891901 9780192891907 0192192094 9780192192097 |
| OCLC Number: | 24010508 |
| Notes: | "An OPUS book"--Ser. t.p. |
| Description: | xii, 234 p. ; 20 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | History of Western philosophy, 4. |
| Responsibility: | John Cottingham. |
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- Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650.
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- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, -- Freiherr von, -- 1646-1716.
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- Methodologie.
- Substantie.
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- Lichaam en geest.
- Cartesianisme.
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- Vrijheid.
- Moraal.
- Descartes, René -- (1596-1650) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Spinoza, Baruch, -- (1632-1677) -- Critique et interprétation.
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