Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes / James Griffith.
Griffith, James (Assistant Professor), author.
2018
B1878.I5 G73 2018
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Title
Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes / James Griffith.
Author
Griffith, James (Assistant Professor), author.
ISBN
9783319702384 (electronic bk.)
3319702386 (electronic bk.)
9783319702377
3319702378
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (213 pages)
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B1878.I5 G73 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
100
Summary
What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes' use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes? philosophy. First focusing on 'The World' and the 'Discourse on Method', this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.
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What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes' use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes? philosophy. First focusing on 'The World' and the 'Discourse on Method', this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.
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1. Introduction : References
2. Fable in The World and the Discourse : Fable and poetry
Fable and pedagogy
References
3. Fable-structure or -logic : Fable and other forms
Fable and deception
References
4. Method : Simplicity and complexity
Error and inexact science
Histoire, rule-obedience, and rule-generation
References
5. Imagination : Pedagogy and imagination
Space and fable
Will, wonder, and imagination
References
6. Conclusion
Index.

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