Philosophy of Descartes

Informationen zum Autor A. Boyce Gibson was Professor in Philosophy at University of Melboune. Zusammenfassung Maintaining that it is impossible to understand the work of a philosopher without understanding the previous history of thought and the contemporaneous developments, this book, originally published in 1932, is an in-depth study of Descartes’ philosophy with a strong emphasis on the historical approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Heritage of Descartes 2. The Mission of Descartes 3. Cogito, Ergo, Sum 4. The Existence of God 5. The Nature of Scientific Knowledge 6. The Objects of Scientific Knowledge 7. The Problem of Perception 8. The Attributes of God 9. The Vindication of Human Knowledge 10. Free-Will and the Moral Life

Product details

• Authors: A. Boyce Gibson, Gibson A. Boyce
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138204935
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20493-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Rene Descartes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy