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Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention,
discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political
orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological
discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials
and a questioning of the boundaries between species, human and
non-human, between social classes, and of the assumed naturalness
of political inequality. This book gives a tour through those
objects, ordinary and extraordinary, which captivated the
philosophical imagination of the single most important French
philosopher of this period, Rene Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and
Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attempt to make sense of the
complex, composite objects of human and divine invention,
consistent with the fundamental tenets of his metaphysical system.
Their central argument is that, far from reducing all the
categories of ordinary experience to the two basic categories of
substance, mind and body, Descartes' philosophy recognises
irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own
distinctive modes of explanation.
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