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Zusatztext It is an impressive feat of scholarship and required reading for anyone interested in the role that educational institutions played in the transition from late Scholastic to early modern philosophy. Informationen zum Autor Roger Ariew joined the Philosophy Department at the University of South Florida in 2004 after a postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago, and many years at Virginia Tech. His principal interests concern the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the early modern period. He is the author of Descartes and the Last Scholastics (Cornell University Press, 1999), with a second, revised and expanded edition published as Descartes among the Scholastics (2011), co-author of The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy (Scarecrow Press, 2010), and editor and translator of such works as Descartes, Philosophical Essays and Correspondence (Hackett, 2000). He has been awarded multiple fellowships and research grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. He is currently working on a complete historical-critical edition and English translation of Descartes' correspondence, with Theo Verbeek and Erik-Jan Bos. Klappentext Roger Ariew presents a new account of Descartes as a philosopher who sought to engage his contemporaries and society. He argues that the Principles of Philosophy was written to rival Scholastic textbooks! and considers Descartes' enterprise in contrast to the tradition it was designed to replace and in relation to the works of the first Cartesians. Zusammenfassung Roger Ariew presents a new account of Descartes as a philosopher who sought to engage his contemporaries and society. He argues that the Principles of Philosophy was written to rival Scholastic textbooks, and considers Descartes' enterprise in contrast to the tradition it was designed to replace and in relation to the works of the first Cartesians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Preface; I: Descartes and the Teaching of Philosophy in Seventeenth Century France; 1 Seventeenth Century Scholastic Philosophy: Thomism and Scotism; 2 Descartes and the Jesuits; 3 Descartes and the Oratorians; II: Summa Philosophiae Quadripartita or the Construction of the Scholastic Textbook; 1 Logic in Late Scholastic Textbooks; 2 Ethics in Late Scholastic Textbooks; 3 Some Elements of Physics in Late Scholastic Textbooks; 4 Metaphysics in Late Scholastic Textbooks; III: The Tree of Philosophy: Descartes on Logic! Metaphysics! Physics! and Ethics; 1 Descartes' Logic; 2 Descartes' Metaphysics; 3 Some Elements of Descartes' Physics; 4 Descartes' Two Ethics; IV: Systeme General de la Philosophie or the Construction of the Cartesian Textbook; 1 Cartesian Logic; 2 Cartesian Metaphysics and Natural Theology; 3 Some Elements of Cartesian Physics; 4 The Cartesians and Ethics; V: A Brief Conclusion; Bibliography; Index ...
