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Descartes : belief, skepticism, and virtue

Title
Descartes : belief, skepticism, and virtue / Richard Davies.
Author
Davies, Richard, 1959-
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

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Description
xi, 371 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Descartes is often regarded as the founder of modern philosophy and is credited with placing the question of what we know and how we know it at centre stage. Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue seeks to reinsert his work and thought in its contemporary ethical and theological context." "Richard Davies mobilises the recently emerging notion of intellectual virtue to understand Descartes' philosophical enterprise as a whole. He examines the textual dynamics of Descartes' most famous writings in relation to background debates about human endeavour from Plato down to Descartes' own contemporaries. Bringing these materials together in an innovative format, Davies argues for a new approach to Descartes' ideas of scepticism and the sciences. The book also offers fresh interpretations of key passages from the Meditations." "Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue offers an original reassessment of some of the most important bodies of work in western philosophy."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; v. 3
Uniform Title
Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; v. 3.
Subject
  • Descartes, René, 1596-1650
  • Descartes, René, 1596-1650
  • Perón, Juan Domingo, 1895-1974
  • Descartes, René
  • Skeptizismus
  • Kennistheorie
  • Deugden
  • Scepticisme
  • Philosophers > France > 17th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-342) and indexes.
Contents
pt. I. Structures -- 1. Intellectual virtues -- pt. II. Excess -- 2. Reason and virtue in the Passions -- 3. The vice of credulity -- 4. The control of credulity -- 5. Reason, assent and eternal truth -- pt. III. Defect -- 6. The modes of scepticism -- 7. The form of scepticism -- pt. IV. The mean -- 8. Tota methodus -- 9. Rectitude and science -- 10. What rectitude permits -- 11. What rectitude forbids.
ISBN
  • 0415251222
  • 9780415251228
LCCN
  • 00069036
  • 9780415251228
OCLC
  • ocm45618330
  • 45618330
  • SCSB-9486719
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library