The Crisis of Causality Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change

• Auteur principal: van Ruler, Han (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Brill 1995
• Sujets: European history; Philosophy; History of ideas; History of science; c 1600 to c 1700; Aristotelian; Calvinist; cartesian; church history; Han van Ruler; history; ideas; intellectual; philosophy; scholastic; theology; Thomistic
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Résumé

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.

ISBN

9789004247208
9789004103719

Accès

Open Access