Publication

2020 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

59,750 words, Guess

Page Count

239 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004437616
  • ISBN-109004437614
  • Library of Congress Control Number2020040639
  • OCLC Control Number1178895325
  • Better World Books9789004437616
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCB1875
  • LCCB1878.M55 D47 2021

Description

"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"--

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