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1 online resource |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history,
0920-8607 ;
323
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Descartes and the 'Ingenium' tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism. The first part defines the notion of ingenium in relation to core concepts of Descartes's philosophy, such as memory and enumeration. It focuses on Descartes's uses of this notion in methodical thinking, mathematics, and medicine. The studies in the second part place the Cartesian ingenium within preceding scholastic and humanist pedagogical and natural-philosophical traditions, and highlight its hitherto ignored social and political significance for Descartes himself as a member of the Republic of Letters. By embedding Descartes' notion of ingenium in contemporaneous medical, pedagogical, but also social and literary discourses, this volume outlines the fundamentally anthropological and ethical underpinnings of Descartes's revolutionary epistemology"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations and Diagrams -- Abbreviations and Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Descartes Re-imagined: Ingenuity before and beyond Dualism -- Part 1 Rethinking the Ingenium in the Cartesian Corpus: Method, Mathematics, Medicine -- Chapter 1 Methodical Invention: The Cartesian Ingenium at Work -- Chapter 2 Descartes and Logic: Perfecting the Ingenium -- Chapter 3 Enumeratio in Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii and Beyond -- Chapter 4 Ingenium, Phantasia and Mathematics in Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii |
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Chapter 5 The Post-Regulae Direction of Ingeniumin Descartes: Toward a Pragmatic Psychological Anthropology -- Chapter 6 Augustinian Souls and Epicurean Bodies? Descartes's Corporeal Mind in Motion -- Part 2 The Cartesian Ingenium in Context: Predecessors, Contemporaries, Successors -- Chapter 7 Ingenium between Descartes and the Scholastics -- Chapter 8 Methods of Ingenuity: The Renaissance Tradition behind Descartes's Regulae -- Chapter 9 La Politesse de L'esprit: Cartesian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Scholarly Exchanges |
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Chapter 10 Postface: The Face of Ingenium: Simon Vouet's Portrait of Descartes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650 |
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Mind and body.
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Mind and body |
| Added Author |
Garrod, Raphaële, editor.
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Marr, Alexander, 1978- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Descartes and the ingenium. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020 9789004437616 (DLC) 2020040639 |
| ISBN |
9004437622 |
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9789004437623 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004437616 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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