ISBN:
9789004247208
,
9789004103719
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Keywords:
Aristotelian
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Calvinist
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cartesian
;
church history
;
Han van Ruler
;
history
;
ideas
;
intellectual
;
philosophy
;
scholastic
;
theology
;
Thomistic
;
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC9 History of ideas
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thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MG 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699
Abstract:
The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality would make it impossible for theologians to explain the relationship between God and Creation in philosophical terms. This threatened the status of theology as a scientific discipline. Apart from a detailed analysis of the Scholastic and Cartesian notions of causality, the book offers new perspectives on related subjects, such as seventeenth-century university training and the Cartesian method of science. It will be of great importance to any student of seventeenth-century intellectual history, philosophy, theology and history of science
Note:
English
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