Geraud de Cordemoy

Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Body and the Soul
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-871331-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Géraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (originally published in French in 1666) offers an account of the mind and the body in a human being. Cordemoy is an unorthodox Cartesian who opts for an atomist conception of body and matter. In this groundbreaking treatise, he also presents one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation, with God serving as the true cause of bodily motions in the world and of ideas in the mind. Nadler also includes the first English translation of Cordemoy's short Treatises on Metaphysics, which were probably written soon after the Discourses, and extend his discussion of mind-body union with consideration of human freedom and happiness. The introduction provides a biographical and historical context for Cordemoy's work and a study of his main philosophical doctrines, including his influence on later thinkers (such as Leibniz and Malebranche).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nadler, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul

- Preface

- First Discourse: On Bodies and Matter

- Second Discourse: On the Motion and Rest of Bodies

- Third Discourse: On Natural and Artificial Machines

- Fourth Discourse: On the first Cause of Motion

- Fifth Discourse: On the Union of Mind and Body

- Sixth Discourse: On the Distinction between Body and Soul

- Treatises on Metaphysics

- I. What constitutes the happiness or misery of minds

- II. That God does everything that is real in our actions, without depriving us of freedom

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Nadler has been teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1988. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris), the University of Amsterdam, and Ecole normale supérieure (Paris). Nadler is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy (especially seventeenth century) and medieval Jewish philosophy, and the author of Occasionalism (OUP, 2010) and Spinoza's Heresy (OUP, 2004).