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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Auteur principal: Baldner, Steven E. 1951- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: [2015]
Dans: 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.
ISSN:2153-7925
Contient:Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc2016113051