Essays on Descartes

by Paul Hoffman

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This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years. The essays in Part I include his celebrated "The Unity of Descartes' Man," in which he argues that Descartes accepts the Aristotelian view that soul and body are related as form to matter and that the human being is a substance; a series of subsequent essays elaborating on this interpretation and defending it against objections; and an essay on Descartes'
theory of distinction. In the essays in Part II he argues that Descartes retains the Aristotelian theory of causation according to which...Read more
  • ISBN10 0195321103
  • ISBN13 9780195321104
  • Publish Date 23 April 2009 (first published 17 April 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 296
  • Language English