Descartes and the ontology of everyday life / Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore.
2019
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Title
Descartes and the ontology of everyday life / Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191881688 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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BD331
Dewey Decimal Classification
111.092
Summary
The 17th century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials and a questioning of the boundaries between species, human and non-human, between social classes, and of the assumed naturalness of political inequality. This text gives a tour through those objects, ordinary and extraordinary, which captivated the philosophical imagination of the single most important French philosopher of this period, René Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attempt to make sense of the complex, composite objects of human and divine invention, consistent with the fundamental tenets of his metaphysical system.
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The 17th century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials and a questioning of the boundaries between species, human and non-human, between social classes, and of the assumed naturalness of political inequality. This text gives a tour through those objects, ordinary and extraordinary, which captivated the philosophical imagination of the single most important French philosopher of this period, René Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attempt to make sense of the complex, composite objects of human and divine invention, consistent with the fundamental tenets of his metaphysical system.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2019).
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Normore, Calvin G., 1948- author.
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198836810
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