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Descartes's Theory of Action.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047409977
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Descartes's Theory of ActionLOC classification:
  • B1878.A27D38 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- DESCARTES'STHEORY OF ACTION -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS AND SPIRITUAL ACTION -- 1.1. Mental Action in the Ignatian Exercises -- 1.2. Francis of Sales -- 1.3. Pierre de Bérulle -- CHAPTER TWO PASSION AND ACTION IN RULE XII -- 2.1. Actions vs. Passions -- 2.2. The Will in Action -- 2.3. Judging Simple Natures -- CHAPTER THREE THE INSIGHTS OF ORTHOPRAXY -- 3.1. The World Without Aristotle -- 3.2. Mathematical Truths -- CHAPTER FOUR A DISCOURSE ON RESOLVE -- 4.1. Trying -- 4.2. Promise and Akrasia -- 4.3. Resolve and Self-Reform -- 4.4. Betting on Agent Causation -- 4.5. Basic Action -- CHAPTER FIVE TEMPUS AD AGENDUM: THE TIME TO ACT -- CHAPTER SIX BASIC ACTION REVISITED -- CHAPTER SEVEN I REFRAIN, THEREFORE I AM -- 7.1. Ego and Agency -- 7.2. Ego and Immateriality -- 7.3. Light (Reason) and Fire (Death) -- CHAPTER EIGHT INDUCTION AND INFINITY -- 8.1. The power to reason unrestrictedly -- 8.2. Magnitude and Order -- 8.3. Causation -- 8.4. Infinity -- CHAPTER NINE ACTION AND INDIVIDUATION -- 9.1. My existence, my Nothingness -- 9.2. Theodicy -- 9.3. My errors, my action -- CHAPTER TEN BEYOND OBEDIENCE AND INDIFFERENCE -- 10.1. The Will's Propensity -- 10.2. Freedom of consent -- CHAPTER ELEVEN IS FREE AGENCY REQUIRED FOR THE PERCEPTION OF TRUTH? -- 11.1. Intentionality and its Objects -- 11.2. Velim Nolim -- 11.3. God's (unbracketable) existence -- 11.4. Beyond Autarchy -- 11.5. Summary -- CHAPTER TWELVE AGENCY AND THE ORDER OF NATURE -- 12.1. Natural Wisdom -- 12.2. Trust and Belief -- 12.3. Doctus a Natura -- 12.4. Ordinem naturae pervertere -- 12.5. Trust and Corrigibility -- 12.6. Trust and Providence -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: This volume reexamines Descartes's Meditations to argue that his fundamental discovery is not the epistemological subject, but rather the underlying free agent without whom no epistemological subject is possible. Special attention is paid to the historical context of Descartes's theory of action.
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Intro -- DESCARTES'STHEORY OF ACTION -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS AND SPIRITUAL ACTION -- 1.1. Mental Action in the Ignatian Exercises -- 1.2. Francis of Sales -- 1.3. Pierre de Bérulle -- CHAPTER TWO PASSION AND ACTION IN RULE XII -- 2.1. Actions vs. Passions -- 2.2. The Will in Action -- 2.3. Judging Simple Natures -- CHAPTER THREE THE INSIGHTS OF ORTHOPRAXY -- 3.1. The World Without Aristotle -- 3.2. Mathematical Truths -- CHAPTER FOUR A DISCOURSE ON RESOLVE -- 4.1. Trying -- 4.2. Promise and Akrasia -- 4.3. Resolve and Self-Reform -- 4.4. Betting on Agent Causation -- 4.5. Basic Action -- CHAPTER FIVE TEMPUS AD AGENDUM: THE TIME TO ACT -- CHAPTER SIX BASIC ACTION REVISITED -- CHAPTER SEVEN I REFRAIN, THEREFORE I AM -- 7.1. Ego and Agency -- 7.2. Ego and Immateriality -- 7.3. Light (Reason) and Fire (Death) -- CHAPTER EIGHT INDUCTION AND INFINITY -- 8.1. The power to reason unrestrictedly -- 8.2. Magnitude and Order -- 8.3. Causation -- 8.4. Infinity -- CHAPTER NINE ACTION AND INDIVIDUATION -- 9.1. My existence, my Nothingness -- 9.2. Theodicy -- 9.3. My errors, my action -- CHAPTER TEN BEYOND OBEDIENCE AND INDIFFERENCE -- 10.1. The Will's Propensity -- 10.2. Freedom of consent -- CHAPTER ELEVEN IS FREE AGENCY REQUIRED FOR THE PERCEPTION OF TRUTH? -- 11.1. Intentionality and its Objects -- 11.2. Velim Nolim -- 11.3. God's (unbracketable) existence -- 11.4. Beyond Autarchy -- 11.5. Summary -- CHAPTER TWELVE AGENCY AND THE ORDER OF NATURE -- 12.1. Natural Wisdom -- 12.2. Trust and Belief -- 12.3. Doctus a Natura -- 12.4. Ordinem naturae pervertere -- 12.5. Trust and Corrigibility -- 12.6. Trust and Providence -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

This volume reexamines Descartes's Meditations to argue that his fundamental discovery is not the epistemological subject, but rather the underlying free agent without whom no epistemological subject is possible. Special attention is paid to the historical context of Descartes's theory of action.

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