Physiologia: Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian ThoughtCornell University Press, 2000 - 426 pages Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged. |
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... Descartes and his peers confronted . One aim of this work is to urge that the profoun- dest and historically most effective part of Descartes's project has to do neither with method ( whose relation to Descartes's practice is at times ...
... Descartes and his peers confronted . One aim of this work is to urge that the profoun- dest and historically most effective part of Descartes's project has to do neither with method ( whose relation to Descartes's practice is at times ...
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... Descartes uses a notion that had been imbued with finality , it seems purged of its associations , leaving only a fixed hierarchy of modes of existence . Desmond Clarke begins his work on Descartes's scientific method by proposing to ...
... Descartes uses a notion that had been imbued with finality , it seems purged of its associations , leaving only a fixed hierarchy of modes of existence . Desmond Clarke begins his work on Descartes's scientific method by proposing to ...
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... Descartes's natural philosophy . As in Part I , I again start with change . In §8 I examine Descartes's definition of motion , the laws of motion , and the ontology of force . The structure of material substance is taken up in §9 ...
... Descartes's natural philosophy . As in Part I , I again start with change . In §8 I examine Descartes's definition of motion , the laws of motion , and the ontology of force . The structure of material substance is taken up in §9 ...
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... Descartes , or rather to re - place him , in his intellec- tual setting , has been in progress for at least a century . Already in 1897 Georg Hertling was writing on " Descartes's relations to Scholasticism " ; Étienne Gilson's first ...
... Descartes , or rather to re - place him , in his intellec- tual setting , has been in progress for at least a century . Already in 1897 Georg Hertling was writing on " Descartes's relations to Scholasticism " ; Étienne Gilson's first ...
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Contents
Natural Change | 17 |
Motus Potentia Actus | 21 |
21 Potentia and Actus | 24 |
22 Independent Existence of Motus | 34 |
23 Action and Passion | 40 |
24 Active and Passive Potentice | 46 |
Form Privation and Substance | 53 |
31 Principles of Change | 55 |
62 Existence of Ends | 177 |
63 Character of the Final Cause | 186 |
64 Teleological Reasoning | 200 |
Nature and Counternature | 212 |
71 The Uses of Nature | 213 |
72 Individual Natures | 227 |
73 Artifacts Human and Divine | 239 |
Bodies in Motion | 253 |
32 Substantial Form and Prime Matter | 64 |
33 Form as Substance | 76 |
Matter Quantity and Figure | 81 |
41 The Essence of Matter | 83 |
42 Quantity and Prime Matter | 97 |
43 Figure and Other Qualities | 109 |
The Structure of Physical Substance | 122 |
51 Matter and Form Distinguished | 124 |
52 Substantial Union | 134 |
Dispositions | 138 |
54 Substantial Form and Active Powers | 157 |
Finality and Final Causes | 168 |
61 Varieties of End | 171 |
Motion and Its Causes | 255 |
81 The Definition and Mode of Existence of Motion | 257 |
82 Persistence Conatus and Quantity of Motion | 272 |
The Problem of Force | 312 |
Parts of Matter | 342 |
91 Extensive Quantity and the Nature of Matter | 345 |
92 Substance and Space | 354 |
the Sufficiency of Extension | 377 |
World without Ends | 391 |
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Page 1 - Si les phénomènes ne sont pas enchaînés les uns aux autres, il n'ya point de philosophie. Les phénomènes seraient tous enchaînés, que l'état de chacun d'eux pourrait être sans permanence. Mais si l'état des êtres est dans une vicissitude perpétuelle ; si la nature est encore à l'ouvrage, malgré la chaîne qui lie les phénomènes, il n'ya point de philosophie. Toute notre science...