Descartes's Moral Theory /

Descartes's Moral Theory / / John Marshall.

Most Cartesian scholars focus on the metaphysical and epistemological aspects of the philosopher's texts. In this long awaited volume, John Marshall invites us to reconsider René Descartes as an ethicist. Through an unconventional study of his statements about morality found in such writings as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Marshall, John,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1998
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Sources
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Morality of the Discourse
  • 1. Descartes's Morale par Provision
  • 2. Descartes's Second Maxim
  • 3. The Third Maxim
  • Part Two. Descartes's Final Morality
  • 4. The Summum Bonum
  • 5. The Rules of Morality
  • 6. Gueroult's Account of Descartes's Ethics
  • 7. The Moral Theory of the Passions
  • Part Three. Value and Generosity
  • 8. A Cartesian Theory of Value
  • 9. Morality as Generosity
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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