Abstract
AbstractThis collection of essays focuses on some pivotal theses in Cartesian philosophy, examining them in light of the philosophical context and of essential reference authors for seventeenth-century intellectuals. These include Scholastic thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Suárez; classical writers such as Galen; authors contemporary to Descartes, such as Campanella and Silhon; and philosophers who referred to Cartesian philosophy, such as La Forge and Malebranche. By considering their influence and contributions, it is possible to clarify some basic theses of Cartesian philosophy and to answer some long-debated questions in Descartes scholarship pertaining to issues such as the intuitive character of the proof of God’s existence, the presence of the theory of the free creation of eternal truths in the hypothesis of divine deception, the limits of divine power, the theory of animals as machines, and the possible Cartesian origin of some central theses in Occasionalism.
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