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Descartes's Moral Theory /

Most Cartesian scholars focus on the metaphysical and epistemological aspects of the philosopher's texts. In this long awaited volume, John Marshall invites us to reconsider Rene Descartes as an ethicist. Through an unconventional study of his statements about morality found in such writings as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Marshall, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Sources
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Morality of the Discourse
  • 1. Descartes's Morale par Provision
  • 2. Descartes's Second Maxim
  • 3. The Third Maxim
  • Part Two. Descartes's Final Morality
  • 4. The Summum Bonum
  • 5. The Rules of Morality
  • 6. Gueroult's Account of Descartes's Ethics
  • 7. The Moral Theory of the Passions
  • Part Three. Value and Generosity
  • 8. A Cartesian Theory of Value
  • 9. Morality as Generosity
  • Works Cited
  • Index