Screen LibraryDescartes' deontological turn：reason, will, and virtue in the later writings
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 224 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521763301 0521763304 |
| Index Number: | B565 |
| CLC: | B565.21 |
| Call Number: | B565.21/N111 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Looking inward: truth, falsehood, and clear and distinct ideas -- Error in judgment -- Free will -- Free will and the likeness to God -- From intellectual to practical reason -- Descartes' deontological ethics of virtue. "This book offers a new way of approaching the place of the will in Descartes' mature epistemology and ethics. Departing from the widely accepted view, Noa Naaman-Zauderer suggests that Descartes regards the will, rather than the intellect, as the most significant mark of human rationality, both intellectual and practical. Through a close reading of Cartesian texts from the Meditations onward ... |