Journal article
SEMEL IN VITA: DESCARTES' STOIC VIEW ON THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN HUMAN LIFE
Faith and philosophy, Vol.24(2), pp.165-184
04/01/2007
DOI: 10.5840/faithphil200724226
Abstract
In his June 1643 letter to Princess Elizabeth, Descartes makes a claim that is a bit surprising given the hyper-intellectualism of the Meditations and other texts. He says that philosophy is something that we should do only rarely. Here I show how Descartes' recommendation falls out of other components of his system-in particular his stoicism and his views on embodiment. A consequence of my reading is that to an important degree the reasoning of the Fourth Meditation is the imprecise reasoning of a not-yet-Cartesian meditator.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- SEMEL IN VITA: DESCARTES' STOIC VIEW ON THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN HUMAN LIFE
- Creators
- David Cunning - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Faith and philosophy, Vol.24(2), pp.165-184
- DOI
- 10.5840/faithphil200724226
- ISSN
- 0739-7046
- eISSN
- 2153-3393
- Publisher
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- Number of pages
- 20
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2007
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984397950802771
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