The good Cartesian

• Verfasst von: Nadler, Steven M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The good Cartesian
• Titelzusatz: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm
• Verf.angabe: Steven Nadler
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 16, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-767174-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197671719.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Philosophy
• Sach-SW: History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
• K10plus-PPN: 1897425902
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), an important but underappreciated (and understudied) follower of René Descartes (1596-1650) who made a major contribution to making Cartesianism the dominant philosophical paradigm of the seventeenth century. La Forge was a devoted and faithful, but not uncritical, disciple who defended, updated, and even corrected Descartes' metaphysics, physics, and physiology, both to move Cartesian system to greater internal coherence and to make it more consistent with the latest scientific developments.