Mind, Body, and Morality : New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza.

The turn of the millennium has been marked by new developments in the study of early modern philosophy. In particular, the philosophy of Renae Descartes has been reinterpreted in a number of important and exciting ways, specifically concerning his work on the mind-body union, the connection between...

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Superior document:Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 19
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 19.
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I Cartesian Persons; 2 The Metaphysics of Cartesian Persons; 3 The Gender of the Cartesian Mind, Body, and Mind-Body Union; 4 "I certainly seem to see": Embodiment in the Second Meditation; Part II Ideas, Knowledge, and Reality; 5 Ideas and Reality in Descartes; 6 Spinoza's Three Kinds of Cognition: Imagination, Understanding, and Definition and Essence; 7 Mind-Body Interaction and Unity in Spinoza; 8 Spinoza and the Inferential Nature of Thought
  • 9 Self-Consciousness and Consciousness of Self: Spinoza on Desire and Pride10 Spinoza on Activity and Passivity: The Problematic Definition Revisited; Part III Will, Virtue, and Love; 11 Teleology and Descartes' Problem of Error; 12 Descartes' Generosité; 13 A Cartesian Distinction in Virtue: Moral and Perfect; 14 Spinoza and the Cartesian Definition of Love; 15 Self and Will in Descartes's Account of Love; Index