Ragland C. P. The Will to Reason: Theodicy and Freedom in Descartes 9780190264451

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Автор: Ragland C. P.
Название: The Will to Reason: Theodicy and Freedom in Descartes
ISBN: 9780190264451
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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ISBN-10: 0190264454
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 01.04.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 240 x 163 x 25
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Theodicy and freedom in descartes
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Offering an original perspective on the central project of Descartes Meditations, this book argues that Descartes free will theodicy is crucial to his refutation of skepticism.
A common thread runs through Descartes radical First Meditation doubts, his Fourth Meditation discussion of error, and his pious reconciliation of providence and freedom: each involves a clash of perspectives-thinking of God seems to force conclusions diametrically opposed to those we reach when thinking only of ourselves. Descartes fears that a skeptic could exploit this clash of perspectives to argue that Reason is not trustworthy because self-contradictory. To refute the skeptic and vindicate the consistency of Reason, it is not enough for Descartes to demonstrate (in the Third Meditation) that our Creator is perfect; he must also show (in the Fourth) that our errors cannot prove Gods imperfection. To do this, Descartes invokes the idea that we err freely. However, prospects initially seem dim for this free will theodicy, because Descartes appears to lack any consistent or coherent understanding of human freedom.
In an extremely in-depth analysis spanning four chapters, Ragland argues that despite initial appearances, Descartes consistently offered a coherent understanding of human freedom: for Descartes, freedom is most fundamentally the ability to do the right thing. Since we often do wrong, actual humans must therefore be able to do otherwise-our actions cannot be causally determined by God or our psychology. But freedom is in principle compatible with determinism: while leaving us free, God could have determined us to always do the good (or believe the true). Though this conception of freedom is both consistent and suitable to Descartes purposes, when he attempts to reconcile it with divine providence, Descartess strategy fails, running afoul of his infamous doctrine that God created the eternal truths.

The Will to Reason: Theodicy and Freedom in Descartes, Ragland C. P.