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Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding (Paperback)
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Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Rene Descartes
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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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