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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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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[2015]
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Année: 2015, Volume: 89, Pages: 287-298 |
RelBib Classification: | KAH Époque moderne KDB Église catholique romaine NBC Dieu NBD Création VA Philosophie |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
DESCARTES, Rene, 1596-1650
B Occasionalism B Ontology B Christian Philosophy B CATHOLIC philosophers |
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Résumé: | 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 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc2016113051 |