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Routledge History of Philosophy Volume III - Medieval Philosophy (Paperback, New edition): John Marenbon Routledge History of Philosophy Volume III - Medieval Philosophy (Paperback, New edition)
John Marenbon
R1,224 Discovery Miles 12 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Chapters:
1. Boethius: from antiquity to the Middle Ages
2. From the beginnings to Avicenna
3. Averroes
4. Jewish philosophy
5. Philosophy and its background in the early medieval West
6. John Scottus Eriugena and Anselm of Canterbury
7. The twelfth century
8. The intellectual context of later medieval philosophy: universities, Aristotle, arts, theology
9. Metaphysics and science in the thirteenth century: William of Auvergne, Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon
10. Bonaventure, the German Dominicans and the new translations
11. Thomas Aquinas
12. The Paris arts faculty: Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Facia, Radulphus Brito
13. Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus
14. Ockham's World and future
15. Walter Burley, Peter Aureoli and Gregory of Rimini
16. Paris and Oxford between Aureoli and Rimini
17. Late medieval logic
18. Late medieval philosophy, 1350-1500
19. Suárez (and later scholasticism)

History of the Concept of Mind - Volume 1: Speculations About Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume (Paperback, New Ed):... History of the Concept of Mind - Volume 1: Speculations About Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume (Paperback, New Ed)
Paul S. MacDonald
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the 20th century theorists of mind were almost exclusively concerned with various versions of the materialist thesis, but prior to current debates accounts of soul and mind reveal an extraordinary richness and complexity which bear careful and impartial investigation. This book is the first single-authored, comprehensive work to examine the historical, linguistic and conceptual issues involved in exploring the basic features of the human mind - from its most remote origins to the beginning of the modern period. MacDonald traces the development of an armature of psychical concepts from the Old Testament and Homer's works to the 18th century advocacy of an empirical science of the mind. Along the way, detailed attention is paid to the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicurus, before turning to look at the New Testament, Neoplatonism, Augustine, Medieval Islam, Aquinas and Dante. Treatment of Renaissance theories is followed by an unusual (perhaps unique) chapter on the words "soul" and "mind" in English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare; the story then rejoins the mainstream with analyses of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Chapter-focused bibliographies.

Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover): Carl Sean O'Brien, John Dillon Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover)
Carl Sean O'Brien, John Dillon
R3,077 Discovery Miles 30 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. First developed in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, it was taken up by subsequent thinkers in antiquity, entered the theological debates of the Middle Ages, and played a key role in the reception of Neoplatonism and the etiquette of romantic relationships during the Italian Renaissance. In this wide-ranging reference work, a leading team of international specialists examines the Platonic distinction between higher and lower forms of eros, the role of the higher form in the ascent of the soul and the concept of Beauty. They also treat the possibilities for friendship and interpersonal love in a Platonic framework, as well as the relationship between love, rhetoric and wisdom. Subsequent developments are explored in Plutarch, Plotinus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Aquinas, Ficino, della Mirandola, Castiglione and the contra amorem tradition.

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers (Paperback, New): G.R. Evans Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers (Paperback, New)
G.R. Evans
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Focusing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical outline, a list of works and a summary of their main theories, alongside suggestions for further reading. Chronologically arranged, and with an introductory essay which presents important themes in context, this volume is an invaluable reference tool for all students of Medieval Europe.

Nicholas of Cusa - A Medieval Thinker for the Modern Age (Hardcover): Kazuhiko Yamaki Nicholas of Cusa - A Medieval Thinker for the Modern Age (Hardcover)
Kazuhiko Yamaki
R4,368 Discovery Miles 43 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Nicholas of Cusa (1401 64), doctor of canon law, church politician and philosopher, was one of the most important thinkers of 15th century Europe. This year marks the sixth centenary of his birth. Scholars from round the globe gathered in Tokyo for the 19th Cusanus Congress last year; this volume makes their contributions more widely available. Major themes examined include tradition and innovation, religion, the relevance of Nicholas of Cusa's thought for today, the relationship between East and West in his thought, and the development of his thought and scholarship as we enter a new millennium. Multilingual text: English, German, French.

Agonistes - Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien (Paperback): John Dillon Agonistes - Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien (Paperback)
John Dillon; Monique Dixsaut
R1,373 Discovery Miles 13 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Agonistes comprises a collection of essays presented by his friends and colleagues to Denis O'Brien, former Directeur de recherche at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, representing the full range of his scholarly interests in the field of ancient philosophy, from the Presocratics, through Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy, to Plotinus and later Neoplatonism. The honorand himself leads off with a stimulating Apologia, sketching the development of his scholarly interests and dwelling on the issues that have chiefly concerned him. The contributions then follow in chronological order, under four headings: I From the Presocratics to Plato (Frere, Brancacci); II From Plato to the Stoics (Brisson, Casertano, Dixsaut, KA1/4hn, McCabe, Narcy, Rowe, Goulet); III Plotinus and the Neoplatonist Tradition (O'Meara, Sakonji, Gersh, Steel, Dillon, Smith); IV Saint Augustine and After (Pepin, Rist, Brague/Freudenthal). They comprise a significant representation of the most distinguished scholars both on the continent and in the British Isles, and fairly represent the wide influence which Denis O'Brien has had on his contemporaries. The volume includes also a full bibliography of O'Brien's works.

Renaissance Thought - A Reader (Paperback, New): Robert Black Renaissance Thought - A Reader (Paperback, New)
Robert Black
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays on the Renaissance, focusing on humanism and thought. The concept of the Renaissance has always been challenging to define and this book enables a deeper understanding of the essential features of the Renaissance and humanism. Knowledge of Renaissance thought illuminates other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy.
Renaissance Thought explores all the important themes and influential figures including:
* humanism and scholasticism
* the scholarship of Politician
* printers and readers in Italy
* Ptolemy of Lucca
* Petrarch
* Florentine constitutionalism and Medici ascendancy
* the humanist challenge to medieval German culture.
This collection of articles is essential reading for students of the Renaissance. The book will allow readers to contribute to the debate on the Renaissance, a theme which has never ceased to stimulate intellectual interest since the earliest days of the Renaissance itself.

The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy (Paperback): Leo Catana The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy (Paperback)
Leo Catana
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as his heterodox view of man's relationship to God. The concept of contraction is twofold. In the ontological sense it denotes the way in which the One, or God, descends to multiplicity. In the noetic sense it accounts for the ways in which the individual human soul ascends towards God through a reversed process of contemplation. Bruno denied the efficacy of the several psychical, psychological and medical states traditionally thought to aid contemplation and noetic ascent towards God. In his view the only means was philosophical contemplation, the use of memory being one important form. Philosophical contemplation elevated the mind from the fragmented multiplicity of sense impressions to an understanding of the principles governing the sensible world. This publication is the first book-length study dedicated to concept of contraction in Bruno's philosophy. Moreover, it explores his sources for this concept. Traditionally Ficino's translation of Plotinus, dating from the second half of the fifteenth century, has been seen as a key source to the Neoplatonism informing Bruno's philosophy. In The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy another Neoplatonic source is considered, namely the pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de Causis (Book of causes), which has not yet been examined in the context of Renaissance Neoplatonism. This work, probably written in Arabic in the ninth century, was translated into Latin in the twelfth century and remained well known to many late Medieval and Renaissance philosophers. Catana argues that this work may have prepared for Ficino's translation of Plotinus, and that in some instances it provided a common source to Renaissance philosophers, Bruno and Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) being conspicuous examples discussed in this book.

Renaissance Thought - A Reader (Hardcover): Robert Black Renaissance Thought - A Reader (Hardcover)
Robert Black
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A collection of essays on the Renaissance, focusing on humanism and thought. The concept of the Renaissance has always been challenging to define. This book aims to enable a deeper understanding of the essential features of the Renaissance and humanism. Knowledge of Renaissance thought illuminates other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy. This book explores all the important themes and influential figures including: humanism and scholasticism; the scholarship of Politician; printers and readers in Italy; Ptolemy of Lucca; Petrarch; Florentine constitutionalism and Medici ascendancy; and the humanist challenge to medieval German culture.

Theology at Paris, 1316-1345 - Peter Auriol and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents (Hardcover, New... Theology at Paris, 1316-1345 - Peter Auriol and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents (Hardcover, New edition)
Chris Schabel
R3,865 Discovery Miles 38 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Chris Schabel presents a detailed analysis of the radical solution given by the Franciscan Peter Auriol to the problem of reconciling divine foreknowledge with the contingency of the future, and of contemporary reactions to it. Auriol's solution appeared to many of his contemporaries to deny God's knowledge of the future altogether, and so it provoked intense and long-lasting controversy; Schabel is the first to examine in detail the philosophical and theological background to Auriol's discussion, and to provide a full analysis of Auriol's own writings on the question and the immediate reactions to them. This book sheds new light both on one of the central philosophical debates of the Middle Ages, and on theology and philosophy at the University of Paris in the first half of the 14th century, a period of Parisian intellectual life which has been largely neglected until now.

The 'Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought (Paperback): Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt The 'Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought (Paperback)
Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt; As told to John Marenbon
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries, serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante. Jean de Meun's section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is notable for its sophisticated responses to a whole host of contemporary philosophical debates. This collection brings together literary scholars and historians of philosophy to produce the most thorough, interdisciplinary study to date of how the Rose uses poetry to articulate philosophical problems and positions. This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the importance of the poem for medieval intellectual history and offers new insights into the philosophical potential both of the Rose specifically and of medieval poetry as a whole.

Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature - Shakespeare, Descartes, and Animal Studies (Hardcover): Rebecca Ann Bach Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature - Shakespeare, Descartes, and Animal Studies (Hardcover)
Rebecca Ann Bach
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature and natural history display an unequal creaturely world: all creatures were categorized hierarchically. However, post-Cartesian readings of Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature have misunderstood Renaissance hierarchical creaturely relations, including human relations. Using critical animal studies work and new materialist theory, Bach argues that attending closely to creatures and objects in texts by Shakespeare and other writers exposes this unequal world and the use and abuse of creatures, including people. The book also adds significantly to animal studies by showing how central bird sociality and voices were to Renaissance human culture, with many believing that birds were superior to some humans in song, caregiving, and companionship. Bach shows how Descartes, a central figure in the transition to modern ideas about creatures, lived isolated from humans and other creatures and denied ancient knowledge about other creatures' minds, especially bird minds. As significantly, Bach shows how and why Descartes' ideas appealed to human grandiosity. Asking how Renaissance categorizations of creatures differ so much from modern classifications, and why those modern classifications have shaped so much animal studies work, this book offers significant new readings of Shakespeare's and other Renaissance texts. It will contribute to a range of fields, including Renaissance literature, history, animal studies, new materialism, and the environmental humanities.

Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Conversations with Aristotle (Hardcover, New Ed): Constance Blackwell,... Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Conversations with Aristotle (Hardcover, New Ed)
Constance Blackwell, Sachiko Kusukawa
R3,947 Discovery Miles 39 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume offers an important re-evaluation of early modern philosophy. It takes issue with the received notion of a 'revolution' in philosophical thought in the 17th-century, making the case for treating the 16th and 17th centuries together. Taking up Charles Schmitt's formulation of the many 'Aristotelianisms' of the period, the papers bring out the variety and richness of the approaches to Aristotle, rather than treating his as a homogeneous system of thought. Based on much new research, they provide case studies of how philosophers used, developed, and reacted to the framework of Aristotelian logic, categories and distinctions, and demonstrate that Aristotelianism possessed both the flexibility and the dynamism to exert a continuing impact - even among such noted 'anti-Aristotelians' as Descartes and Hobbes. This constant engagement can indeed be termed 'conversations with Aristotle'.

The Planets Within - The Astrological Psychology Of Marsilio Ficino (Paperback, Rev. Ed): Thomas Moore The Planets Within - The Astrological Psychology Of Marsilio Ficino (Paperback, Rev. Ed)
Thomas Moore; Introduction by Noel Cobb
R602 R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Save R113 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Planets Within asks us to return to antiquity with new eyes. It centers on one of the most psychological movements of the prescientific age -- Renaissance Italy, where a group of 'inner Columbuses' charted territories that still give us today a much- needed sense of who we are and where we have come from, and the right routes to take toward fertile and unexplored places. Chief among these masters of the interior life was Marsilio Ficino, presiding genius of the Florentine Academy, who taught that all things exist in soul and must be lived in its light. This study of Ficino broadens and deepens our understanding of psyche, for Ficino was a doctor of soul, and his insights teach us the care and nurture of soul. Moore takes as his guide Ficino's own fundamental tool -- imagination. Respecting the integrity and autonomy of images, The Planets Within unfolds a poetics of soul in a kind of dialogue between the laconic remarks of Ficino and the need to give these remarks a life and context for our day.

Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Hardcover): F.A. Yates Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Hardcover)
F.A. Yates
R5,983 Discovery Miles 59 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Remembering Boethius - Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures (Paperback): Elizabeth... Remembering Boethius - Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures (Paperback)
Elizabeth Elliott
R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethius and the literary construction of aristocratic identity, focusing on a body of late-medieval vernacular literature that draws on the Consolation of Philosophy to represent and reimagine contemporary experiences of exile and imprisonment. Elizabeth Elliott presents new interpretations of English, French, and Scottish texts, including Machaut's Confort d'ami, Remede de Fortune, and Fonteinne amoureuse, Jean Froissart's Prison amoureuse, Thomas Usk's Testament of Love, and The Kingis Quair, reading these texts as sources contributing to the development of the reader's moral character. These writers evoke Boethius in order to articulate and shape personal identities for public consumption, and Elliott's careful examination demonstrates that these texts often write not one life, but two, depicting the relationship between poet and aristocratic patron. These works associate the reception of wisdom with the cultivation of memory, and in turn, illuminate the contemporary reception of the Consolation as a text that itself focuses on memory and describes a visionary process of education that takes place within Boethius's own mind. In asking how and why writers remember Boethius in the Middle Ages, this book sheds new light on how medieval people imagined, and reimagined, themselves.

Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy (Hardcover): Donald J. Zeyl Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy (Hardcover)
Donald J. Zeyl
R6,156 Discovery Miles 61 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy is a reference work on the philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity. It includes subjects and figures from the dawn of philosophy in Ionia in the 6th century BC to the demise of the Academy in Athens in the 6th century AD. Scholarly study of the texts and philosophical thought of this period has been, during the last half of the 20th century, amazingly productive and has become increasingly sophisticated. The 269 articles in the encyclopedia reflect this development. While the majority of the articles are devoted to individual figures, many of the articles are thematic surveys of broad areas such as epistemology, ethics, and political thought. Some articles focus on particular concepts that evoked significant philosophical treatment by the ancients, and have proved central to later thought. Other articles treat fields that are no longer considered part of philosophy proper, such as mathematics and science. There are articles examining areas of intellectual or cultural endeavour, such as poetry or rhetoric, or genres of philosophical expression, such as dialogue and diatribe. Still others describe the historical developments of philosophical schools and traditions. The encyclopedia includes a chronology and guide to further reading. Best Reference Source

The Longman Standard History of Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover): Garrett Thomson, Daniel Kolak The Longman Standard History of Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover)
Garrett Thomson, Daniel Kolak
R5,408 Discovery Miles 54 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With selections of philosophers from Plotinus to Bruno, this new anthology provides significant learning support and historical context for the readings along with a wide variety of pedagogical assists. Featuring biographical headnotes, reading introductions, study questions, as well as specialPrologues andPhilosophical Overviews, this anthology offers a unique set of critical thinking promtps to help students understand and appreciate the philosophical concepts under discussion.Philosophical Bridges" discuss how the work of earlier thinkers would influence philosophers to come and place major movements in a contemporary context, showing students how the schools of philosophy interrelate and how the various philosophies apply to the world today. In addition to this volume of Medieval Philosophy, a comprehensive survey of the whole of Western philosophical history and other individual volumes for each of the major historical eras are also available for specialized courses.

Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, also known as Shaikh al-ishraq or the Master of Illumination, lived in the sixth century AH / twelfth century CE.
His thoughts form a consistent and coherent philosophical system, and a close study of his writings in Persian reveals a theory of knowledge generally called 'Knowledge by Presence'. The elaborate web of myth and symbolism in Suhrawardi's philosophy articulates his theory of knowledge, an important subject in the ishraqi school of thought.
Suhrawardi, who claims first to have discovered the truth and then embarked on a path to find the rational basis of his experiential wisdom, represents a thinker who tried to reconcile rational discourse and inner purification.

Medieval Jewish Philosophy - An Introduction (Hardcover): Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Cohn-Sherbok Medieval Jewish Philosophy - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Cohn-Sherbok
R3,915 Discovery Miles 39 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Beginning with the earliest philosopher of the Middle Ages, Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi, this work surveys the writings of such figures as Solomon ben Joseph ibn Gabirol, Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda, Abraham ben david Halevi ibn Daud, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, Gersonides, Hasdai Crescas, Simon ben Zemah Duran, Joseph Albo, Isaac Arama, and Isaac Abrabanel. Throughout an attempt is made to place these thinkers in an historical context and describe their contributions to the history of Jewish medieval thought in simple and lucid terms. The book is directed to students enrolled in Jewish studies courses as well as to those who seek an awareness and appreciation of the riches of medieval Jewish philosophical tradition.

Medieval Jewish Philosophy - An Introduction (Paperback): Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Cohn-Sherbok Medieval Jewish Philosophy - An Introduction (Paperback)
Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Cohn-Sherbok
R1,265 Discovery Miles 12 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Surveys the writings of leading Jewish thinkers, attempting to place them in an historical context and describe their contributions to the history of Jewish medieval thought in simple and lucid terms.

Renaissance Theories of Vision (Paperback): John Shannon Hendrix, Charles H. Carman Renaissance Theories of Vision (Paperback)
John Shannon Hendrix, Charles H. Carman
R1,623 Discovery Miles 16 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley. Contributors carefully scrutinize and illustrate the effect of changing and evolving ideas of intellectual and physical vision on artistic practice in Florence, Rome, Venice, England, Austria, and the Netherlands. The artists whose work and practices are discussed include Fra Angelico, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippino Lippi, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, Parmigianino, Titian, Bronzino, Johannes Gumpp and Rembrandt van Rijn. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the intellectual confluence between art, science, philosophy, and literature across Renaissance Europe.

An Essay on the Metaphysics of Descartes (Hardcover): Marthinus Versfeld An Essay on the Metaphysics of Descartes (Hardcover)
Marthinus Versfeld
R3,474 Discovery Miles 34 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1940, this book provides a thorough discussion of Rene Descartes philosophy of metaphysics, examining the three major points of the mind and body, freedom of the will and religion and science. Specific chapters are devoted to the Cartesian theory and the Meditations, in particular the Sixth.

The Scientific Work of Rene Descartes - 1596-1650 (Hardcover): J.F. Scott The Scientific Work of Rene Descartes - 1596-1650 (Hardcover)
J.F. Scott
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When originally published in 1952, this book filled a gap in the history of philosophy and science and remains an important work today, because it puts the main mathematical and physical discoveries of Descartes in an accessible form, for the benefit of English readers. Descartes is acknowledged to be the founder of modern mathematics, through his invention of analytical geometry and this volume charts Descartes' role in bringing a unity into algebra and geometry and the development of mathematics into a discipline which could be properly analysed. Carefully paraphrasing the Geometrie, this volume retains much of Descartes' original notation as well as the original diagrams. The volume also discusses the considerable contribution that Descartes made to the physical sciences which involved accurate work in optics, light, sight and colour.

Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding (Hardcover): John Carriero Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding (Hardcover)
John Carriero
R3,922 Discovery Miles 39 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume, originally published in 1990, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it. Through the examination of the continuities and discontinuities between Descartes' account of the understanding and that of high scholasticism, a characterization emerges of two way in which the understanding is autonomous in Descartes' view. These two sorts of autonomy shed light on the origin of a set of related concerns that give modern philosophy its coherence, setting it apart from medieval philosophy as a distinct tradition. The first sort - the independence of the understanding of the senses - creates the modern problem of scepticism with regard to the external world. The second sort, concerning the ontological status of the mind, provides the background against which modern discussions of the mind/body problem take shape.

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