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Descartes' Deontological Turn - Reason, Will, and Virtue in the Later Writings (Paperback)
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Descartes' Deontological Turn - Reason, Will, and Virtue in the Later Writings (Paperback)
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This book offers a way of approaching the place of the will in
Descartes' mature epistemology and ethics. Departing from the
widely accepted view, Noa Naaman-Zauderer suggests that Descartes
regards the will, rather than the intellect, as the most
significant mark of human rationality, both intellectual and
practical. Through a close reading of Cartesian texts from the
Meditations onward, she brings to light a deontological and
non-consequentialist dimension of Descartes' later thinking, which
credits the proper use of free will with a constitutive, evaluative
role. She shows that the right use of free will, to which Descartes
assigns obligatory force, constitutes for him an end in its own
right rather than merely a means for attaining any other end,
however valuable. Her important study has significant implications
for the unity of Descartes' thinking, and for the issue of
responsibility, inviting scholars to reassess Descartes'
philosophical legacy.
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