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Author: Todd Ryan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-08-17
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1135988005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a series of detailed studies of Bayle’s engagement with such crucial metaphysical issues as mind-body dualism, causation, and God’s relation to the world. It is argued that despite his reputation as a skeptic, Bayle is deeply influenced by the metaphysical systems of Descartes, and especially Nicolas Malebranche.
Author: Todd Ryan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-08-17
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1135987998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his magnum opus, the Historical and Critical Dictionary, Pierre Bayle offered a series of brilliant criticisms of the major philosophical and theological systems of the 17th Century. Although officially skeptical concerning the attempt to provide a definitive account of the truths of metaphysics, there is reason to see Bayle as a reluctant skeptic. In particular, Todd Ryan contends that Bayle harbored deep sympathy for the attempt by Descartes and his most innovative successor, Nicolas Malebranche, to establish a metaphysical system that would provide a foundation for the new mechanistic natural philosophy while helping to secure the fundamental tenets of rational theology. Through a careful analysis of Bayle’s critical engagement with such philosophers as Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke and Newton, it is argued that, despite his reputation as a skeptic, Bayle was not without philosophical commitments of his own. Drawing on the full range of Bayle’s writings, from his early philosophical lectures to his final controversial writings, Ryan offers detailed studies of Bayle’s treatment of such pivotal issues as mind-body dualism, causation and God’s relation to the world.
Author: Tad M. Schmaltz
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0190070226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study traces the development of the metaphysics of the material world in early modern thought. It starts with the scholastic innovator Suárez, proceeds to a consideration of Suárez's connections to Descartes, and ends with an examination of Spinoza's fundamental re-conceptualization of the Cartesian material world.
Author: Lawrence Nolan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 1642
ISBN-13: 1316380939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.
Author: Steven M. Nadler
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 843
ISBN-13: 0198796900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrious team of scholars offer a rich survey of the thought of Rene Descartes; of the development of his ideas by those who followed in his footsteps; and of the reaction against Cartesianism. Epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics are all covered.
Author: Wiep van Bunge
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-10-22
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 900438359X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an attempt to assess the part played by philosophy in the eighteenth-century Dutch Enlightenment. Following Bayle’s death and the demise of the radical Enlightenment, Dutch philosophers soon embraced Newtonianism and by the second half of the century Wolffianism also started to spread among Dutch academics. Once the Republic started to crumble, Dutch enlightened discourse took a political turn, but with the exception of Frans Hemsterhuis, who chose to ignore the political crisis, it failed to produce original philosophers. By the end of the century, the majority of Dutch philosophers typically refused to embrace Kant’s transcendental project as well as his cosmopolitanism. Instead, early nineteenth-century Dutch professors of philosophy preferred to cultivate their joint admiration for the Ancients.
Author: Pierre Bayle
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780872201033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The bulk of the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for so many eighteenth-century discussions--are present, including David, Manicheans, Paulicians, Pyrrho, Rorarius, Simonides, Spinoza, and Zeno of Elea.
Author: Pierre Bayle
Publisher: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
Published: 2016-06
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9789004321410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronology of Bayle's life and main philosophical works -- Chronology of the Bayle-Le Clerc debate -- Chronology of the Bayle-Jaquelot debate -- The problem of evil in Bayle's dictionary -- Bayle's debate with Le Clerc -- Bayle's debate with Jaquelot
Author: Wiep van Bunge
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-06-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9004165363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains 15 essays on the philosophy, theology and reception of Pierre Bayle, who is now generally regarded as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment.
Author: Delphine Antoine-Mahut
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-14
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0429787553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were traditionally studied. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. It does so by taking into consideration the historical reception of Descartes and the ways in which Descartes himself reacted to these receptions in his own lifetime. The book stresses the diversity of these receptions by taking into account not only Cartesianisms but also anti-Cartesianisms, and by showing how they retroactively highlighted different aspects of Descartes’ works and theoretical choices. The historical aspect of the volume is unique in that it not only analyzes different constructions of Descartes that emerged in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, but also reflects on how his work was first read by philosophers across Europe. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a fresh and up-to-date contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.
