Geraud De Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the - Body and the Sou

Informationen zum Autor Steven Nadler has been teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1988. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris), the University of Amsterdam, and Ecole normale supérieure (Paris). Nadler is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy (especially seventeenth century) and medieval Jewish philosophy, and the author of Occasionalism (OUP, 2010) and Spinoza's Heresy (OUP, 2004). Klappentext Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal early modern text, accompanied by a full introduction. Geraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (1666) offers a groundbreaking account of the mind and body, and one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation. Zusammenfassung Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal early modern text, accompanied by a full introduction. Géraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (1666) offers a groundbreaking account of the mind and body, and one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul Preface First Discourse: On Bodies and Matter Second Discourse: On the Motion and Rest of Bodies Third Discourse: On Natural and Artificial Machines Fourth Discourse: On the first Cause of Motion Fifth Discourse: On the Union of Mind and Body Sixth Discourse: On the Distinction between Body and Soul Treatises on Metaphysics I. What constitutes the happiness or misery of minds II. That God does everything that is real in our actions, without depriving us of freedom Index

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• Authors: Gaeraud De Cordemoy, Department of Philosophy Steven (Universit Nadler, Steven Nadler, Steven (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Nadler, Nadler Steven
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780198713319
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871331-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy