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The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation

:	Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti, Justin E. H. Smith
:	Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti, Justin E. H. Smith
:	The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9789048193851
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:	Allgemeines, Lexika
:	English

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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 traditional label. The collection of original essays addresses topics ranging from theodicy and early modern music theory to Spinoza's anti-humanism, often critically revising important aspects of the received picture of the Rationalists. Another important contribution of the volume is that it brings out aspects of Rationalist philosophers and their legacies that are not ordinarily associated with them, such as the project of a Cartesian ethics. Finally, a strong emphasis is placed on the connection of the Rationalists' philosophy to their interests in empirical science, to their engagement in the political life of their era, and to the religious background of many of their philosophical commitments.

Carlos Fraenkel is an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and Jewish studies at McGill University in Montreal. His publications include From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the Dalâlat al-Hâ'irîn into the Moreh ha-Nevukhim, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2007 (Hebrew) and Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza-Reason, Religion, and Autonomy, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Dario Perinetti is associate professor in the department of philosophy at Université du Québec à Montréal. He has published on David Hume, G.W. Hegel and early modern philosophy of history. He is currently completing a manuscript book on David Hume. Justin E. H. Smith is associate professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz's Philosophy of Biology (Princeton University Press, 2010), and is currently working on a critical edition and translation for the Yale Leibniz series, with François Duchesneau, of Georg Ernst Stahl's Negotium Otiosum. His current research concerns the impact of European colonial expansion and exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries on early modern philosophical reflections about human nature and human difference.

	Contents	6
	Contributors	8
	1 Introduction	9
	References	16
	Part I Continuities Between the Premodern and the Modern	18
	2 Descartes on Human Nature and the Human Good	19
	2.1 Eudaimonism and Structural Eudaimonism	20
	2.2 The Meditations: The Nature of the Human Mind and the Human Good	22
	2.3 A Bodily Contribution to the Human Good?	24
	2.4 Stoic Oikeiosis and Descartess Account of the Human Good	26
	2.5 Descartes, Human Nature, and the Human Good	30
	References	32
	3 Spinoza on Philosophy and Religion: The Averroistic Sources	33
	References	48
	4 Music, Mechanics and Mixed Mathematics	50
	4.1	50
	4.2	58
	4.3	65
	References	68
	Part II Creating Traditions	70
	5 Ethics in Descartes and Seventeenth Century Cartesian Textbooks	71
	References	79
	6 Louis Bourguet and the Model of Organic Bodies	80
	6.1 The Stakes of the Transition from Vallisneri to Bourguet	81
	6.2 The Nature of Organized Bodies	88
	6.3 The Role of Organic Mechanism in the Explanation of Generation	91
	6.4 Conclusion	100
	References	101
	Part III Rethinking Spinoza	102
	7	102
	7	102
	103	102
	7.1 Nemo non videt: Scientia Intuitiva, Part I	106
	7.2 Intuitive Superiority: Scientia Intuitiva, Part II	112
	7.3 Wisdom for the Many?	120
	References	123
	8 Rationalism Versus Subjective Experience: The Problem of the Two Minds in Spinoza	125
	8.1 The Absolute vs. the Subjective Mind	126
	8.2 The Intellectualist Reading of the Mind	129
	8.3 That Inadequate Ideas Are Also in God	133
	8.4 How the Order of Imagination is	133
	8.4 How the Order of Imagination is	133
	139	133
	References	144
	Part IV Legacies of Rationalism	146
	9 Spinoza's Anti-Humanism: An Outline	147
	9.1 Introduction	147
	9.2 The Place of Humanity in Spinozas World	151
	9.3 The Battle Against Anthropomorphism.	155
	9.4 Spinozas Radical Naturalism	161
	9.5 Epilogue	164
	References	165
	10 Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Gods of Philosophy	167
	10.1 Three Gods	168
	10.2 Spinozas Choice	175
	Abbreviations	181
	Works by Leibniz	181
	Works by Malebranche	181
	Works by Arnauld	182
	Works by Descartes	182
	Works by Spinoza	182
	References	182
	11 Leibniz on Infinite Beings and Non-beings	183
	11.1 Introduction	183
	11.2 Infinite Number and Infinite Being	185
	11.3 Infinite Number and Infinite Series	188
	11.4 Complete Concepts of Individuals and Created Individuals	190
	11.5 Possible Things and Actual Things	191
	11.6 Entia and entia rationis	192
	11.7 Aggregates and Substances	193
	11.8 Natural Machines and Artificial Machines	196
	11.9 Conclusion	198
	Abbreviations	198
	11.9.1 References to Leibniz Works	198
	References to Secondary Sources	199
	12 Grounding the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Leibnizian Rationalism and the Humean Challenge	200
	12.1 Introduction	200
	12.2 Leibniz	202
	12.3 Leibnizs Rationalist Followers: Wolff and Baumgarten	209
	12.4 Hume	213
	12.5 Conclusion	216
	References	217
	Name Index	219
	Subject Index	221