Descartes :: a biography /
"Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing "I think, therefore I am," but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing "I think, therefore I am," but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and thereby earned the unrelenting hostility of both Catholic and Calvinist theologians, who relied on the scholastic philosophy that Descartes hoped to replace. His contemporaries claimed that his proofs of God's existence, in the Meditations, were so unsuccessful that he must have been a cryptic atheist, and that his discussion of scepticism served mainly to fan the flames of libertinism. Descartes died in Stockholm in obscurity but soon became one of the most famous philosophers of the seventeenth century, a status that he continues to enjoy today. This is the first biography in English that addresses the full range of Descartes' interest in theology, philosophy, and the sciences and that traces his intellectual development through his entire career."--Jacket |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xi, 507 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-502) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511168993 9780511168994 0511167520 9780511167522 9780511498077 0511498071 |
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| spelling | Clarke, Desmond M. Descartes : a biography / Desmond M. Clarke. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. 1 online resource (xi, 507 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-502) and index. Print version record. A lawyer's education -- In search of a career (1616-1622) -- Magic, mathematics, and mechanics: Paris, 1622-1628 -- A fabulous world (1629-1633) -- The scientific Essays and the Discourse on Method (1633-1637) -- Retreat and defence (1637-1639) -- Metaphysics in a hornet's nest (1639-1642) -- The French liar's monkey and the Utrecht crisis -- Descartes and Princess Elizabeth -- The Principles of Philosophy (1644) -- The quarrel and final rift with Regius -- Once more into battle: the Leiden theologians (1647) -- Thoughts of retirement -- Death in Sweden. "Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing "I think, therefore I am," but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and thereby earned the unrelenting hostility of both Catholic and Calvinist theologians, who relied on the scholastic philosophy that Descartes hoped to replace. His contemporaries claimed that his proofs of God's existence, in the Meditations, were so unsuccessful that he must have been a cryptic atheist, and that his discussion of scepticism served mainly to fan the flames of libertinism. Descartes died in Stockholm in obscurity but soon became one of the most famous philosophers of the seventeenth century, a status that he continues to enjoy today. This is the first biography in English that addresses the full range of Descartes' interest in theology, philosophy, and the sciences and that traces his intellectual development through his entire career."--Jacket Descartes, René, 1596-1650. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79061201 Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJm4PF6Xqwc8m39hM8khpP Philosophers France Biography. Philosophes France Biographies. Philosophers fast France fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP Biographies fast Biographies. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 Biographies. rvmgf Print version: Clarke, Desmond M. Descartes. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521823013 (DLC) 2005008107 (OCoLC)58788939 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=156536 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Clarke, Desmond M. Descartes : a biography / A lawyer's education -- In search of a career (1616-1622) -- Magic, mathematics, and mechanics: Paris, 1622-1628 -- A fabulous world (1629-1633) -- The scientific Essays and the Discourse on Method (1633-1637) -- Retreat and defence (1637-1639) -- Metaphysics in a hornet's nest (1639-1642) -- The French liar's monkey and the Utrecht crisis -- Descartes and Princess Elizabeth -- The Principles of Philosophy (1644) -- The quarrel and final rift with Regius -- Once more into battle: the Leiden theologians (1647) -- Thoughts of retirement -- Death in Sweden. Descartes, René, 1596-1650. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79061201 Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJm4PF6Xqwc8m39hM8khpP Philosophers France Biography. Philosophes France Biographies. Philosophers fast |
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