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Descartes and the First Cartesians (Hardcover)
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Descartes and the First Cartesians (Hardcover)
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Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we
should not approach Rene Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a
philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so
as to engage them and elements of his society into his
philosophical enterprise. Roger Ariew argues that an important
aspect of this engagement concerns the endeavor to establish
Cartesian philosophy in the Schools, that is, to replace Aristotle
as the authority there. Descartes wrote the Principles of
Philosophy as something of a rival to Scholastic textbooks,
initially conceiving the project as a comparison of his philosophy
and that of the Scholastics. Still, what Descartes produced was
inadequate for the task. The topics of Scholastic textbooks ranged
more broadly than those of Descartes; they usually had
quadripartite arrangements mirroring the structure of the
collegiate curriculum, divided as they typically were into logic,
ethics, physics, and metaphysics. But Descartes produced at best
only what could be called a general metaphysics and a partial
physics. These deficiencies in the Cartesian program and in its
aspiration to replace Scholastic philosophy in the schools caused
the Cartesians to rush in to fill the voids. The attempt to publish
a Cartesian textbook that would mirror what was taught in the
schools began in the 1650s with Jacques Du Roure and culminated in
the 1690s with Pierre-Sylvain Regis and Antoine Le Grand. Ariew's
original account thus considers the reception of Descartes' work,
and establishes the significance of his philosophical enterprise in
relation to the textbooks of the first Cartesians and in contrast
with late Scholastic textbooks.
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