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Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World Book

Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World
Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World, The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine wil, Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World
  • Written by author Margaret J. Osler
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, October 2003
  • The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine wil
  • This book is about the influence of theological presuppositions on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century.
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Part I. Theology and the Philosophy of Nature:

1. Divine power and divine will in the Middle Ages: historical and conceptual background;
2. Baptizing epicurean philosophy: Gassendi on divine will and the philosophy of nature;
3. Providence and human freedom in Christian epicureanism: Gassendi on fate, fortune and divination;
4. Theology, metaphysics, and epistemology: Gassendi's 'Science of Appearances';
5. Eternal truths and the laws of nature:

Part II. The Theological Foundations of Descartes' Philosophy of Nature:
6. Gassendi and Descartes in conflict;
7. Introduction: theories of matter and their epistemological connections;
8. Gassendi's atomism, an 'empirical' theory of matter;
9. Mathematizing nature: Descartes' geometrical theory of matter;
10. Conclusion: theology transformed and the emergence of styles of science.


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