Descartes and Suárez: Mechanizing the Magic
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Description
The systematic investigation of the metaphysical foundations of consciousness in the 17th century. The lectures explore the convoluted path followed by prominent voices at the end of the Renaissance and the start of Modernism. In exposing the underpinning of Cartesian theories of mind: Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, Ibero-Judaic and Arabic sources are brought to bear on the philosophy of the Schools to which Descartes held a troubled relation. Objective Reality, Representation, Intentionality and Causality from the mystics to the mechanists tell a compelling story about the birth of modern theories of mind.Read more
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Episodes (83)
Introduction
The Life of Suárez
A Note on Suárez: Works and Texts
Lecture 1 The Road to God
Meditation Six
The Goal of the Meditations
Clear and Distinct but False
The Metaphysics of Illumination
The Aesthetic Tradition
Augustine