Descartes

Autorentext

Richard Davies is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Italy

Klappentext

Davies explores neglected areas of Descartes' philosophy, such as his thoughts on virtue, and questions whether or not this will call for a reassessment of Descartes' role in western philosophy.

Zusammenfassung
An original reassessment of Descartes' work which reinserts it in its contemporary context. Explores the notion of intellectual virtue in Descartes' inquiry and argues for a new approach to Descartes' ideas of scepticism and the sciences.

Inhalt
Introduction Motivation, The plot, References PART I Structures 1 Intellectual virtues PART II Excess 2 Reason and virtue in the Passions 4 The control of credulity 5 Reason, assent and eternal truth PART III Defect 6 The modes of scepticism 7 The form of scepticism PART IV The mean 8 Tota methodus 9 Rectitude and science 10 What rectitude permits11 What rectitude forbids, Afterword