Descartes as Catholic Philosopher and Natural Philosopher
A Catholic philosophy requires an account of God as the first cause of all being. Descartes provides this, but he does so at a high price, for his Creator of ontologically and causally independent moments of creaturely existence precludes all secondary causes. Descartes's philosophy thus result...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2015, Volume: 89, Pages: 287-298 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDB Roman Catholic Church NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
DESCARTES, Rene, 1596-1650
B Occasionalism B Ontology B Christian Philosophy B CATHOLIC philosophers |
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| Summary: | A Catholic philosophy requires an account of God as the first cause of all being. Descartes provides this, but he does so at a high price, for his Creator of ontologically and causally independent moments of creaturely existence precludes all secondary causes. Descartes's philosophy thus results in occasionalism, which I try to show is the unhappy result of errors in natural philosophy concerning material forms and duration. Suarez provides a contrasting scholastic account of creation, showing how novel, and problematic, Descartes's position is. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7925 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc2016113051 |