Descartes on the Human Soul: Philosophy and the Demands of Christian DoctrineSpringer Science & Business Media, 1999 - 438 Seiten The author's aim of providing an understanding of the development, content and presentation of two aspects of Descartes' philosophy of the human soul - immortality and body-soul union - has been achieved and executed with rigour, scholarship and philosophical acuity. Fowler combines close textual analysis with a consideration of the philosophical arguments and the theological background against which these arguments were developed. This contextual approach enables him to provide new insights into the nature of Descartes' philosophy, and indeed of early modern philosophy more generally. Despite the massive scholarly documentation, this finely structured and clearly written study is eminently readable. The work is a significant contribution to the world of Cartesian scholarship which professors and graduate students of Descartes, as well as the world's libraries, must have. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Immortality and the Meditationes | 7 |
Letter of Dedication | 18 |
Title of 1641 Edition | 35 |
Descartes on Immortality Prior to 1640 | 54 |
Scholasticism and Immortality | 67 |
32 Aristotelianisms Difficulties in Proving Immortality | 71 |
33 Solutions to the Major Difficulties | 87 |
76 The Contribution of Faith | 269 |
The Human Mind is a Pure Substance | 273 |
82 Descartes Cryptic? | 279 |
83 The Undisguised Meaning of Substantia Pura | 298 |
84 A Controversial Legacy | 301 |
Platonic Threat to MindBody Union | 305 |
92 Regius Gaffe ens per accidens | 312 |
93 Descartes Defence ens per se | 321 |
332 The Priority of the Senses | 93 |
Between Beast and Angel | 114 |
42 Animal Automatism | 119 |
422 Meditationes | 126 |
423 Post Meditationes | 144 |
43 Mind and Angels | 153 |
From Soul to Mind Descartes Vocabulary | 161 |
52 Objections and Replies | 175 |
53 Texts Accompanying the Meditationes | 181 |
What Constitutes a Demonstration of Immortality? | 187 |
62 Scholastic Approaches | 192 |
63 Physical Proofs | 202 |
64 Moral Proofs | 208 |
The Synopsis and the Demonstration of Immortality | 220 |
72 Elements of Proof Found in the Medita tiones | 224 |
73 Elements of Proof Found in the Whole of Physics | 229 |
74 Incorruptibility of Substance | 240 |
Responsio 1642 | 248 |
Magistrates and Theologians | 329 |
Descartes Efforts to Secure MindBody Union | 338 |
102 Excommunication of Regius 16471648 | 349 |
103 Regius Heresy Mind as Mode | 355 |
104 In Defence of MindBody Union | 372 |
1042 Discours and Meditationes | 375 |
1043 Replies to Arnauld | 378 |
1044 Replies to Gassendi | 381 |
1045 Sixth Set of Replies | 384 |
1046 Letter to Hyperaspistes | 393 |
1047 Descartes contra Voetius | 395 |
1048 Descartes and the Princess Elizabeth | 397 |
105 Regius Unmoved | 404 |
Conclusion | 409 |
Bibliography | 413 |
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