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03323aam a2200361 i 4500 001 964061646B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 140523s2014 enk b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2014940457 020 $a 0199563519 020 $a 9780199563517 035 $a (OCoLC)880557631 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d CDX $d QGK $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d OCLCQ $d NYP $d OCLCF $d COO $d OBE $d ORU $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 4 $a B1875 A64 2014 100 1 $a Ariew, Roger, $e author. 245 10 $a Descartes and the first Cartesians / $c Roger Ariew. 246 18 $a Descartes & the first Cartesians 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xix, 236 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-223) and index. 505 0 $a Descartes and the teaching of philosophy in seventeenth-century France -- Summa Philosophiae Quadripartita or the construction of the late scholastic textbook -- The tree of philosophy : Descartes on logic, metaphysics, physics, and ethics -- Syst©·me G©ân©âral de la Philosophie or the construction of the Cartesian textbook -- A brief conclusion. 520 8 $a This book adopts the perspective that we should not approach Rene Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his philosophical enterprise. Roger Ariew argues that an important aspect of this engagement concerns the endeavor to establish Cartesian philosophy in the Schools, that is, to replace Aristotle as the authority there. Descartes wrote the 'Principles of Philosophy' as something of a rival to Scholastic textbooks, initially conceiving the project as a comparison of his philosophy and that of the Scholastics. Still, what Descartes produced was inadequate for the task. The topics of Scholastic textbooks ranged more broadly than those of Descartes; they usually had quadripartite arrangements mirroring the structure of the collegiate curriculum, divided as they typically were into logic, ethics, physics, and metaphysics. But Descartes produced at best only what could be called a general metaphysics and a partial physics. These deficiencies in the Cartesian program and in its aspiration to replace Scholastic philosophy in the schools caused the Cartesians to rush in to fill the voids. The attempt to publish a Cartesian textbook that would mirror what was taught in the schools began in the 1650s with Jacques Du Roure and culminated in the 1690s with Pierre-Sylvain Regis and Antoine Le Grand. Ariew's original account thus considers the reception of Descartes' work, and establishes the significance of his philosophical enterprise in relation to the textbooks of the first Cartesians and in contrast with late Scholastic textbooks.--Back jacket. 600 10 $a Descartes, Ren©â, $d 1596-1650. 600 10 $a Descartes, Ren©â, $d 1596-1650 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Philosophy, Modern $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Scholasticism $x History $y 17th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826104546.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=964061646B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search