Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding (Routledge Library Editions: Rene Descartes)
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2018
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- Title
- Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding (Routledge Library Editions: Rene Descartes)
- Author
- Carriero, John
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1138202355
- ISBN 13
- 9781138202351
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 404 grams
- Dimensions
- 1.5 centimeters width by 15.6 centimeters height by 23.39 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy
This volume, originally published in 1990, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it. Through the examination of the continuities and discontinuities between Descartes’ account of the understanding and that of high scholasticism, a characterization emerges of two way in which the understanding is autonomous in Descartes’ view. These two sorts of autonomy shed light on the origin of a set of related concerns that give modern philosophy its coherence, setting it apart from medieval philosophy as a distinct tradition. The first sort – the independence of the understanding of the senses – creates the modern problem of scepticism with regard to the external world. The second sort, concerning the ontological status of the mind, provides the background against which modern discussions of the mind/body problem take shape.
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About the Author
John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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