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Descartes and the "Ingenium": The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism

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'Descartes and the 'Ingenium'' tracks the significance of embodied thought ('ingenium') in the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism. The first part of the book 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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO3765108
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Year:
2021
Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
254
ISBN 10:
9004437614
ISBN 13:
9789004437623
ISBN:
9004437614,9789004437616,9789004437623
Series:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 323

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