384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Descartes is often regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, and is credited with placing at centre stage the question of what we know and how we know it. Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue seeks to reinsert his work and thought in its contemporary ethical and theological context. Richard Davies explores the much neglected notion of intellectual virtue as it applies to Descartes' inquiry... Read more
Introduction Motivation, The plot, References PART I Structures 1 Intellectual virtues PART II Excess 2 Reason and virtue in the Passions 4 The control of credulity 5 Reason, assent and eternal truth PART III Defect 6 The modes of scepticism 7 The form of scepticism PART IV The mean 8 Tota methodus 9 Rectitude and science 10 What rectitude permits11 What rectitude forbids, Afterword
Biography
Richard Davies is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Italy
'Davies offers many acute close readings of familiar texts, readings which often show the texts in a new and convincing light ... supported by very wide reading.' - Anthony Kenny
