The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature, and ChangeBRILL, 1995 - 353 pages "The Crisis of Causality" deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the "New Philosophy" of Rene Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality would make it impossible for theologians to explain the relationship between God and Creation in philosophical terms. This threatened the status of theology as a scientific discipline. Apart from a detailed analysis of the Scholastic and Cartesian notions of causality, the book offers new perspectives on related subjects, such as seventeenth-century university training and the Cartesian method of science. It will be of great importance to any student of seventeenth-century intellectual history, philosophy, theology and history of science. |
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Table des matières
Voetius Essay on Natures and Substantial Forms | 9 |
Species and Forms | 37 |
Finalist Physics | 71 |
Perception and Causality | 107 |
From Ends to Impulse | 133 |
The Composite Character of Substantial Unity | 167 |
Ultimate Causes in Mechanical Physics | 199 |
The Cartesian World | 241 |
Causes Conservation and Concurrence | 261 |
Conclusions | 303 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 321 |
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accepted accidental According to Voetius action animal Aquinas argues argument Aristotelian Aristotle body Cartesian chapter Christian clockwork commentary concerning Conimbricenses conservation Copernicanism Danæus Discours discussion Dispp disputation distinction divine concurrence essay Étienne Gilson example explain external motor fact Genesis Gisbertus Voetius God's heart heat Henricus Regius human hypotheses ibidem idea idem instance interpretation ISBN 90 Jean-Luc Marion Leiden Marin Mersenne mathematical Mathesis mathesis universalis matter mechanical mechanical philosophy mechanistic Mersenne metaphysical Météores Méthode Monde monsters motion movement mules Narratio natural objects natural philosophy natural processes octo libros physicorum Paracelsans Paris particles perfection phenomena Plato Principia principles quæ Querelle question reason refers regard rejected René Descartes Responsio Rodis-Lewis Scepticism Scholastic Schoock Scripture secondary causes Select sense soul species substances substantial forms Summa Theologica teleological Theo Verbeek theologians theology theory things Universe Utrecht VIII-I W. D. Ross Zanchius