The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature, and Change"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
Introduction | 1 |
Book Culture in Muscovy | 21 |
Ukrainian Humanisms Challenge | 45 |
Humanism | 58 |
Peter Tolstoi Polonized Courtier | 71 |
Conclusion | 85 |
58 | 92 |
80 | 98 |
EighteenthCentury Russian Humanistic | 104 |
Russian Book Culture in the Later | 138 |
A The Problem of Sources I | 173 |
Epilogue The Fate of Latin Culture in | 198 |
Conclusion | 231 |
Bibliography of Works Consulted | 243 |
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| Titre | The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature, and Change Volume 66 de Brill's studies in intellectual history |
| Auteur | J. A. Van Ruler |
| Éditeur | BRILL, 1995 |
| ISBN | 9004103716, 9789004103719 |
| Longueur | 353 pages |
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