The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation
This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their tradi
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The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy VOLUME 65
Managing Editor: SIMO KNUUTTILA, University of Helsinki Associate Editors: DANIEL ELLIOT GARBER, Princeton University RICHARD SORABJI, University of London Editorial Consultants: JAN A. AERTSEN, Thomas-Institut, Universität zu Köln ROGER ARIEW, University of South Florida E. JENNIFER ASHWORTH, University of Waterloo MICHAEL AYERS, Wadham College, Oxford GAIL FINE, Cornell University R. J. HANKINSON, University of Texas JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University PAUL HOFFMAN, University of California, Riverside DAVID KONSTAN, Brown University RICHARD H. KRAUT, Northwestern University, Evanston ALAIN DE LIBERA, Université de Genève JOHN E. MURDOCH, Harvard University DAVID FATE NORTON, McGill University LUCA OBERTELLO, Università degli Studi di genova ELEONORE STUMP, St. Louis University ALLEN WOOD, Stanford University
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Carlos Fraenkel · Dario Perinetti · Justin E.H. Smith Editors
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Editors Prof. Carlos Fraenkel Department of Philosophy McGill University Leacock Building 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montréal, Québec H3A 2T7 Canada [email protected]
Prof. Dario Perinetti Département de Philosophie Université du Québec à Montréal Case postale 8888, succursale Centre-ville Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8 Canada [email protected]
Prof. Justin E.H. Smith Department of Philosophy Concordia University 1455 Blvd. de Maisonneuve West Montréal, Québec H3G 1M8 Canada [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-9384-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9385-1 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9385-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010936524 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti, and Justin E.H. Smith Part I
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Continuities Between the Premodern and the Modern
2 Descartes on Human Nature and the Human Good . . . . . . . . . Lisa Shapiro
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3 Spinoza on Philosophy and Religion: The Averroistic Sources . . . Carlos Fraenkel
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4 Music, Mechanics and “Mixed Mathematics” . . . . . . . . . . . . Alison Laywine
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Part II
Creating Traditions
5 Ethics in Descartes and Seventeenth Century Cartesian Textbooks Roger Ariew
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6 Louis Bourguet and the Model of Organic Bodies . . . . . . . . . . François Duchesneau
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Part III
Rethinking Spinoza
7 “Nemo non videt”: Intuitiv
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